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.

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Note: Bold page numbers refer to tables; italic page numbers refer to figures and page numbers followed by “n” denote endnotes.

Advanced Development and Planning Centre 24–25
Alien Property Custodian’s Office (APC) 80
AMBAC Industries 84
Amdam, Rolv Petter 3, 61–63
American Bosch 65, 74, 76, 77, 88, 92n18, 94n38
- case study in 79–85, 83, 84
- Western Massachusetts economy 66
American Bosch-ARMA (ABA) 80
American Overseas Development Corporation 80
American Securities Corporation 80
Ames Company 68–69

Bacharach Instruments 82
Bachmann, Andreas 59n45
Baldwin-Duckworth Company 72
Bauch Machine Tool Company 72
bedriftsledersamlinger 48
bedriftslederskoler 46
Bjarnar, Ove 3, 61–63
Bluestone, Barry 82
Bosch, Robert 79, 80, 94n38
business advisory services 45, 46, 50
business leaders 3, 10, 26
business-state relations 13

Campbell, Matthew 94n39
capital, reconciliation of 12
CCS see Civil Communications Section (CCS)
Central Research Laboratory (CRL) 24
Chandler, A. D.: Scale and Scope 9, 13
Channing, Walter H. 58n38
Chapman Valve 72, 73, 79
civic capitalism 74
Civil Communications Section (CCS) 21, 31n56
Civil War 68, 69
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Cover
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Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
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List of maps
List of contributors
Introduction
From knowledge dependence to knowledge creation: Industrial growth and the technological advance of the Japanese electronics industry
Management qualification and dissemination of knowledge in regional innovation systems: The case of Norway 1930s–1990s
‘Neither a sleepy village nor a coarse factory town’: Skill in the Greater Springfield Massachusetts Industrial Economy, 1800–1990
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