From steam to diesel : managerial customs and organizational capabilities in the twentieth-century American locomotive industry /

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A comparative work of business history and the history of technology, the book is not a complete history of any locomotive builder, nor does it explore the origins of the diesel engine in great detail. What it does is to demonstrate how managers addressed radical shifts in technology and production...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Churella, Albert J., 1964- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1998.
Colección:Princeton studies in business and technology.
Temas:
1900-1999
Locomotive industry > United States > Management > History > 20th century.
Locomotives > Industrie > États-Unis > Gestion > Histoire > 20e siècle.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Service.
United States.
Samfundsvidenskab > Økonomi.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I. Steam vs. Diesel: The Capabilities and Requirements of a Radically New Technology
  • II. Internal-Combustion Railcars: Springboard to Participation in the Diesel Locomotive Industry
  • III. First-Mover Advantages and the Decentralized Corporation
  • IV. ALCo and Baldwin: Established Companies, New Technologies
  • V. Policy and Production during World War II
  • VI. Postwar Dieselization and Industry Shakeout
  • VII. The Era of Oligopoly.

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