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

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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

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