2. Industrial Engineering and the Industrial Enterprise, 1890-1940

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. National Bureau of Economic Research v
3. Contents vii
4. Introduction: History and Theory in Search of One Another 1
5. I. WITHIN THE FIRM
6. 1. The Puzzling Profusion of Compensation Systems in the Interwar Automobile Industry 13
7. 2. Industrial Engineering and the Industrial Enterprise, 1890-1940 35
8. 3. The Coordination of Business Organization and Technological Innovation within the Firm: A Case Study of the Thomson- Houston Electric Company in the 1880s 55
9. II. AT THE BOUNDARIES
10. 4. Organization and Coordination in Geographically Concentrated Industries 103
11. 5. The Boundaries of the U.S. Firm in R&D 147
12. 6. Legal Restraints on Economic Coordination: Antitrust in Great Britain and America, 1880-1920 183
13. III. BETWEEN FIRMS
14. 7. The Evolution of Interregional Mortgage Lending Channels, 1870-1940: The Life Insurance-Mortgage Company Connection 209
15. 8. The Costs of Rejecting Universal Banking: American Finance in the German Mirror, 1870-1914 257
16. Contributors 323
17. Name Index 325
18. Subject Index 333