George D. Smith, George David Smith, Smith George David

From Monopoly to Competition

The Transformations of ALCOA, 1888 1986

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A history of the aluminium giant Alcoa, which became one of America's most successful monopolies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 592
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 1100g
• ISBN-13: 9780521352611
• ISBN-10: 0521352614
• Artikelnr.: 21714814

Inhaltsangabe

List of charts
List of tables
List of photographs
Editor's preface
Author's preface
Note on the corporate name
1. Invention and entrepreneurship: the electrolytic process and the establishment of The Pittsburgh Reduction Company
2. Alcoa in context: the rise of the complex corporation
3. Building a big business: markets, strategy, and structure through the First World War
4. Alcoa comes of age: organization, innovation, and labor from the Roaring 20s through the Great Depression
5. Undoing the monopoly: the Second World War and Learned Hand
6. Alcoa's 'splendid retreat': the rise of the aluminium oligopoly, 1947-1957
7. Magee, Close, and Harper: covering the world in aluminium, 1958-1970
8. Responses to a changing world
Appendices
Notes
Index.