The Rise and Decline of the American Cut Nail Industry: A Study of the Interrelationships of Technology, Business Organization, and Management Techniq

by Loveday and Amos J. Loveday

The history of cut nail manufacturing shows how the interaction of technology and markets shaped the structure, organizational patterns, management systems, and individual production units of a single industry--a classic example of the American enterprise system at work. Reliance on wood construction created an expanding market for cut nails and exerted considerable pressure for high volume and low prices. Industry responded to this challenge, introducing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313239185
• ISBN13: 9780313239182
• Release Date: December 1983
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"