6. Sears, Roebuck in the Twentieth Century: Competition, Complementarities, and the Problem of Wasting Assets

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. National Bureau of Economic Research v
3. Contents vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Inventors, Firms, and the Market for Technology in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 19
6. 2. Patents, Engineering Professionals, and the Pipelines of Innovation: The Internalization of Technical Discovery by Nineteenth Century American Railroads 61
7. 3. The Sugar Institute Learns to Organize Information Exchange 103
8. 4. Learning by New Experiences: Revisiting the Flying Fortress Learning Curve 145
9. 5. Assets, Organizations, Strategies, and Traditions: Organizational Capabilities and Constraints in the Remaking of Ford Motor Company, 1946-1962 185
10. 6. Sears, Roebuck in the Twentieth Century: Competition, Complementarities, and the Problem of Wasting Assets 219
11. 7. Marshall's "Trees" and the Global "Forest": Were "Giant Redwoods" Different? 253
12. 8. Can a Nation Learn? American Technology as a Network Phenomenon 295
13. Contributors 333
14. Name Index 335
15. Subject Index 341