The Emergence and Growth of Industrial Research in American Manufacturing, 1899-1945
Author: David Charles Mowery
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 638
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Author: David Charles Mowery
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 638
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 750
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Elizabeth Garber
Publisher: Lehigh University Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780934223119
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection focuses on the intellectual development of the sciences, their relationships with technology, and their place in culture in general including a proposed realignment of science, technology, and art.
Author: David M. Pithan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-07-15
Total Pages: 181
ISBN-13: 1000410307
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith the beginning of the twentieth century, American corporations in the chemical and electrical industries began establishing industrial research laboratories. Some went on to become world-famous not only for their scientific and technological breakthroughs but also for the new union of science and industry they represented. Innovative ideas do not simply appear out of the blue and spread on their own merit. Rather, the laboratory's diffusion takes place in a cultural context that goes beyond corporate capital and technological change. Using discourse analysis as a method to comprehensively capture the organizational field of the early American R&D laboratories from 1870 to 1930, this book uncovers the collective meanings associated with the industrial laboratory. Meanings such as what and where a laboratory is supposed to be, who the scientist is, and what it means to practice science provided cultural resources that made the transfer of the laboratory from academic science into an industrial setting possible by rendering such meanings understandable and operable to big business and organizational entrepreneurs fighting for hegemony in a rapidly evolving market. It analyzes not only the corporations that established laboratories in the United States but also their contexts – economic, political, and especially scientific – showing how "the industrial laboratory" was transformed from an organizational novelty into an expected institution in less than two decades. This book will be of interest to researchers, academics, historians, and students in the fields of organizational change, discourse studies, the management of technology and innovation, as well as business and management history.
Author: David C. Mowery
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2015-02-01
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 080479636X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince the early 1980s, universities in the United States have greatly expanded their patenting and licensing activities. The Congressional Joint Economic Committee, among other authorities, have argued that this surge contributed to the economic boom of the 1990s. And, many observers have attributed this trend to the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980. Using quantitative analysis and detailed case studies, this book tests that conventional wisdom and assesses the effects of the Act, examining the diverse channels through which commercialization has occurred over the 20th century and since the passage of the Act.
Author: William Lazonick
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780415186117
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe readings collected in these four volumes examine the evolution, operation, and performance of the American corporate enterprise, and the American corporate economy more generally. Divided into seven sections, many of the readings provide broad overviews of the evolution of the US corporate enterprise, while others contribute to debates on its role in the evolution of American economy and society. The material is arranged thematically to help the reader navigate the field. There is also a new introduction and a thorough index, making this set an invaluable resource for both academics and practitioners in the field.
Author: David B. Audretsch
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2011-01-01
Total Pages: 529
ISBN-13: 9781849807760
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis path-breaking Handbook analyses the foundations, social desirability, institutions and geography of innovation and entrepreneurship. Leading researchers use their outstanding expertise to investigate various aspects in the context of innovation and entrepreneurship such as growth, knowledge production and spillovers, technology transfer, the organization of the firm, industrial policy, financing, small firms and start-ups, and entrepreneurship education as well as the characteristics of the entrepreneur. There is much in this Handbook that will prove to be informative and stimulating, especially for academics and post-graduate students in economics and management. Those starting a PhD in innovation or entrepreneurship will find this book essential reading.
Author: Naomi R. Lamoreaux
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1995-04-15
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780226468204
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCase studies that examine how firms coordinate economic activity in the face of asymmetric information—information not equally available to all parties—are the focus of this volume. In an ideal world, the market would be the optimal provider of coordination, but in the real world of incomplete information, some activities are better coordinated in other ways. Divided into three parts, this book addresses coordination within firms, at the borders of firms, and outside firms, providing a picture of the overall incidence and logic of economic coordination. The case studies—drawn from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, when the modern business enterprise was evolving, address such issues as the relationship between coordination mechanisms and production techniques, the logic of coordination in industrial districts, and the consequences of regulation for coordination. Continuing the work on information and organization presented in the influential Inside the Business Enterprise, this book provides material for business historians and economists who want to study the development of the dissemination of information and the coordination of economic activity within and between firms.
Author: Robert H. Hayes
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 0029142113
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWriting for general managers, the authors go beyond manufacturing structural decisions to actually changing the infrastructure of a manufacturing company--the leadership and vision, the policies and practices that are vital to creating superior factories and a dynamic learning continuum.
Author: Sally H. Clarke
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-07-25
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780521528450
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explains how US government activity in the 1930s led to gains in farm productivity.