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Churella Albert J. <1964-> |
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From steam to diesel [[electronic resource] ] : managerial customs and organizational capabilities in the twentieth-century American locomotive industry / / Albert J. Churella |
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Princeton, NJ, : Princeton University Press, c1998 |
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1-282-75351-7 |
9786612753510 |
1-4008-2268-8 |
1-4008-1123-6 |
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[Core Textbook] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Collana |
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Princeton studies in business and technology |
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Soggetti |
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Locomotive industry - United States - Management - History - 20th century |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Revision of the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--Ohio State University, 1994. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-211) and index. |
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Front matter -- 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 |
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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 shifts in innovation patterns, since two companies--General Motors and General Electric--that had no traditional ties to locomotive production demolished established steam locomotive manufacturers. Albert Churella uses many previously untapped sources to illustrate how producers responded to technological change, particularly between the 1920's and the 1960's. |
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Companies discussed include the American Locomotive Company (ALCo), the Baldwin Locomotive Works, the Lima Locomotive Works, Fairbanks-Morse, the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors, and General Electric. 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, and does superbly, is to demonstrate how managers addressed radical shifts in technology and production methods. Churella reveals that managerial culture and corporate organizational routines, more than technological competency per se, allowed some companies to succeed, yet constrained the actions of others. He details the shift from small-batch custom manufacturing techniques in the steam locomotive industry to mass-production methods in the diesel locomotive industry. He also explains that chance events and fortuitous technological linkages helped to shape competitive patterns in the locomotive industry. |
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UNINA9910782279203321 |
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Integrable quantum field theories and their application [[electronic resource] ] : proceedings of the APCTP Winter School : Cheju Island, Korea, 28 February-4 March 2000 / / edited by Changrim Ahn, Chaiho Rim, Ryu Sasaki |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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River Edge, NJ, : World Scientific, c2001 |
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1-281-94805-5 |
9786611948054 |
981-279-973-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (viii, 344 p. ) : ill |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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AhnChangrim |
RimC |
SasakiR <1948-> (Ryū) |
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Disciplina |
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Quantum field theory |
Integral equations - Numerical solutions |
Mathematical physics |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Applications of reflection amplitudes in Toda-type theories / C. Ahn, C. Kim and C. Rim -- Lax pairs and involutive Hamiltonians for CN and BCN Ruijsenaars-Schneider models / Kai Chen, B.-Y. Hou and W.-L. Yang -- Fateev's models and their applications / D. Controzzi and A. M. Tsvelik -- The ODE/IM correspondence / P. Dorey, C. Dunning and R. Tateo -- Integrable sigma models / P. Fendley -- Lorentz lattice gases and spin chains / M. J. Martins -- Quantum Calogero-Moser models for any root system / R. Sasaki -- Quasi-particles in conformal field theories for fractional quantum Hall systems / K. Schoutens and R. A. J. van Elburg -- Towards form factors in finite volume / F. A. Smirnov -- Static and dynamic properties of trapped Bose-Einstein condensates / T. Tsurumi, H. Morise and M. Wadati -- Integrability of the Calogero Model: Conserved quantities, the classical general solution and the quantum orthogonal basis / H. Ujino, A. Nishino and M. Wadati -- Conformal boundary conditions / J.-B. Zuber. |
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This volume includes several lecture notes on the fundamentals and elementary techniques of integrable field theories and on their applications to low-dimensional physics systems contributed by leading scientists in the respective fields. The main topics covered are various aspects of the thermodynamic Bethe ansatz, form factors, Calogero (and related) models, sigma models, conformal boundary conditions, etc. The volume presents both pedagogical material and a current research trend in the field. |
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