ABSTRACT

This shortform book presents key peer-reviewed research selected by expert series editors and contextualised by new analysis from each author on the subject of knowledge management in industrial history.

With contributions on knowledge management, knowledge transfer, knowledge loss, knowledge creation, competition and co-operation in producing skilled employees, and ownership structures and their relation to knowledge management, this volume provides an array of fascinating insights into industrial history.

Of interest to business and economic historians, this shortform book also provides analysis and illustrative case-studies that will be valuable reading across the social sciences.

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

chapter |32 pages

From knowledge dependence to knowledge creation

Industrial growth and the technological advance of the Japanese electronics industry

chapter |33 pages

‘Neither a sleepy village nor a coarse factory town’

Skill in the Greater Springfield Massachusetts Industrial Economy, 1800–1990