From Steam to Diesel : Managerial Customs and Organizational Capabilities in the Twentieth-Century American Locomotive Industry /

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He also explains that chance events and fortuitous technological linkages helped to shape competitive patterns in the locomotive industry.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Churella, Albert J., 1964- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1998.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Service.
Locomotives > Industrie > États-Unis > Gestion > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Locomotive industry > United States > Management > History > 20th century.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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