From Steam to Diesel : : Managerial Customs and Organizational Capabilities in the Twentieth-Century American Locomotive Industry / / Albert Churella.
This overview of the leading locomotive producers in the United States during the twentieth century shows how they responded to a radical technological change: the replacement of steam locomotives by diesels. The locomotive industry provides a valuable case study of business practices and dramatic s...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [1998] ©1998 |
| Year of Publication: | 1998 |
| Edition: | Core Textbook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Studies in Business and Technology
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I. Steam vs. Diesel: 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
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index