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Coordination and information : historical perspectives on the organization of enterprise

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Coordination and information : historical perspectives on the organization of enterprise / edited by Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Daniel M.G. Raff.
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1995.

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Additional Authors
  • Lamoreaux, Naomi R.
  • Raff, Daniel M. G.
Description
viii, 337 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series Statement
A National Bureau of Economic Research Conference report
Uniform Title
Conference report (National Bureau of Economic Research)
Subject
  • Industrial organization (Economic theory) > Congresses
  • Business intelligence > Congresses
  • Comparative organization > Congresses
  • Industrial organization > History > Congresses
  • Industrial organization > United States > History > Congresses
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
Introduction: History and Theory in Search of One Another / Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Daniel M. G. Raff -- 1. The Puzzling Profusion of Compensation Systems in the Interwar Automobile Industry / Daniel M. G. Raff -- 2. Industrial Engineering and the Industrial Enterprise, 1890-1940 / Daniel Nelson -- 3. The Coordination of Business Organization and Technological Innovation within the Firm: A Case Study of the Thomson-Houston Electric Company in the 1880s / W. Bernard Carlson -- 4. Organization and Coordination in Geographically Concentrated Industries / Michael J. Enright -- 5. The Boundaries of the U.S. Firm in R&D / David C. Mowery -- 6. Legal Restraints on Economic Coordination: Antitrust in Great Britain and America, 1880-1920 / Tony Freyer -- 7. The Evolution of Interregional Mortgage Lending Channels, 1870-1940: The Life Insurance-Mortgage Company Connection / Kenneth A. Snowden -- 8. The Costs of Rejecting Universal Banking: American Finance in the German Mirror, 1870-1914 / Charles W. Calomiris.
ISBN
  • 0226468208 (cloth : acid-free paper)
  • 0226468216 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
LCCN
94041674
OCLC
  • 31435614
  • ocm31435614
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries