04727nam 2200733 a 450 991078479230332120210604030841.01-281-12582-297866111258200-226-46843-710.7208/9780226468433(CKB)1000000000400373(EBL)408353(OCoLC)476228646(SSID)ssj0000190484(PQKBManifestationID)11178467(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000190484(PQKBWorkID)10181180(PQKB)11572063(MiAaPQ)EBC408353(DE-B1597)523879(OCoLC)781253938(DE-B1597)9780226468433(Au-PeEL)EBL408353(CaPaEBR)ebr10210000(CaONFJC)MIL112582(EXLCZ)99100000000040037319980603d1999 uy 0engurun#---|u||utxtccrLearning by doing in markets, firms, and countries[electronic resource] /Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Daniel M.G. Raff, and Peter TeminChicago, Ill. University of Chicago Press19991 online resource (356 p.)National Bureau of Economic Research conference reportProceedings from a conference.0-226-46834-8 0-226-46832-1 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Front matter --National Bureau of Economic Research --Contents --Introduction --1. Inventors, Firms, and the Market for Technology in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries --2. Patents, Engineering Professionals, and the Pipelines of Innovation: The Internalization of Technical Discovery by Nineteenth Century American Railroads --3. The Sugar Institute Learns to Organize Information Exchange --4. Learning by New Experiences: Revisiting the Flying Fortress Learning Curve --5. Assets, Organizations, Strategies, and Traditions: Organizational Capabilities and Constraints in the Remaking of Ford Motor Company, 1946-1962 --6. Sears, Roebuck in the Twentieth Century: Competition, Complementarities, and the Problem of Wasting Assets --7. Marshall's "Trees" and the Global "Forest": Were "Giant Redwoods" Different? --8. Can a Nation Learn? American Technology as a Network Phenomenon --Contributors --Name Index --Subject IndexLearning by Doing in Markets, Firms, and Countries draws out the underlying economics in business history by focusing on learning processes and the development of competitively valuable asymmetries. The essays show that organizations, like people, learn that this process can be organized more or less effectively, which can have major implications for how competition works. The first three essays in this volume explore techniques firms have used to both manage information to create valuable asymmetries and to otherwise suppress unwelcome competition. The next three focus on the ways in which firms have built special capabilities over time, capabilities that have been both sources of competitive advantage and resistance to new opportunities. The last two extend the notion of learning from the level of firms to that of nations. The collection as a whole builds on the previous two volumes to make the connection between information structure and product market outcomes in business history.National Bureau of Economic Research conference report.Organizational learningCongressesBusiness intelligenceHistoryCongressesBusiness enterprisesHistoryCase studiesCongressesBusinessHistoryCongressesexperience, learning, education, skills, labor, workforce, economics, business, competition, advantage, product market outcomes, information structure, organizations, corporations, management, administration, corporate culture, nonfiction, trade, technology, innovation, opportunity, sears roebuck, networks, assets, ford, flying fortress, sugar institute, railroads, inventors, firms, patents, engineering, redwoods.Organizational learningBusiness intelligenceHistoryBusiness enterprisesHistoryBusinessHistory338.7Lamoreaux Naomi R145579Raff Daniel M. G145580Temin Peter121039MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784792303321Learning by doing in markets, firms, and countries3725152UNINA