Table of Contents for Churella, A.: From Steam to Diesel: Managerial Customs and Organizational Capabilities in the Twentieth-Century American Locomotive Industry.

From Steam to Diesel:
Managerial Customs and Organizational Capabilities in the Twentieth-Century American Locomotive Industry
Albert Churella

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Acknowledgments
Introduction 3
I Steam vs. Diesel: The Capabilities and Requirements of a Radically New Technology 10
II Internal-Combustion Railcars: Springboard to Participation in the Diesel Locomotive Industry 23
III First-Mover Advantages and the Decentralized Corporation 37
IV ALCo and Baldwin: Established Companies, New Technologies 58
V Policy and Production during World War II 75
VI Postwar Dieselization and Industry Shakeout 95
VII The Era of Oligopoly 127
Conclusion 146
Notes 155
Bibliography 201
Index 213