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Learning by doing in markets, firms, and countries

Title
Learning by doing in markets, firms, and countries / Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Daniel M. G. Raff, and Peter Temin.
Publication
Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 1999.

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Additional Authors
  • Lamoreaux, Naomi R.
  • Raff, Daniel M. G.
  • Temin, Peter.
Description
viii, 347 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series Statement
National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
Uniform Title
Conference report (National Bureau of Economic Research)
Subject
  • Organizational learning > Congresses
  • Business intelligence > History > Congresses
  • Business enterprises > Case studies > Congresses
  • Business > History > Congresses
Note
  • Proceedings from a conference.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
  • Introduction / Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Daniel M. G. Raff and Peter Temin -- 1. Inventors, Firms, and the Market for Technology in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries / Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Kenneth L. Sokoloff -- Comment / Adam B. Jaffe -- 2. Patents, Engineering Professionals, and the Pipelines of Innovation: The Internalization of Technical Discovery by Nineteenth-Century American Railroads / Steven W. Usselman -- Comment / Jeremy Atack -- 3. The Sugar Institute Learns to Organize Information Exchange / David Genesove and Wallace P. Mullin -- Comment / Margaret Levenstein -- 4. Learning by New Experiences: Revisiting the Flying Fortress Learning Curve / Kazuhiro Mishina -- Comment / Ross Thomson -- 5. Assets, Organizations, Strategies, and Traditions: Organizational Capabilities and Constraints in the Remaking of Ford Motor Company, 1946-1962 / David A. Hounshell -- Comment / Sidney G. Winter --
  • 6. Sears, Roebuck in the Twentieth Century: Competition, Complementarities, and the Problem of Wasting Assets / Daniel M. G. Raff and Peter Temin -- Comment / Thomas J. Misa -- 7. Marshall's "Trees" and the Global "Forest": Were "Giant Redwoods" Different? / Leslie Hannah -- Comment / Bruce Kogut -- 8. Can a Nation Learn? American Technology as a Network Phenomenon / Gavin Wright -- Comment / Alexander J. Field.
ISBN
  • 0226468321 (alk. paper)
  • 0226468348 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
98008558
OCLC
  • 39269439
  • ocm39269439
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries