Strategies for Innovation
The Diffusion of New Technology in Nineteenth-Century British Industry
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3264744 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christine Macleod (University of Bristol, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 285-307 |
| Publication date | 1992-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Economic History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0117 • E-ISSN: 1468-0289 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-0289.1992.tb01302.x |
| OpenAlex | W1975903895 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 28 |
| References cited | 14 |
Jn so far as it has been studied at all, the British mechanical engineering industry in the nineteenth century has generally been treated as just one more industry among many-if, by the end of that century, one of the most crucial ones in the story of 'decline and fall'.2 Historians have largely taken for granted the industry's role in supplying the machinery and power sources needed by manufacturers of consumer goods, promoters of railways, shipowners, farmers, and others, in the same way that a ritualistic recital of a few major inventions has often been substituted for any serious consideration of their productive consequences.3 With the exception of the machine-tools branch, whose role in promoting unprecedented accuracy and speed of production is recognized, the industry's structural function and the relationship between suppliers of capital goods and their customers have been largely ignored.4 This is curious, since the mechanical engineering industry constituted the major part of a burgeoning new sector, specializing in the production of capital goods, with a vested interest in their adoption, their standardization and, arguably, in their rapid obsolescence.5 The present article attempts to remedy this omission through an exploration of the role of capital-goods suppliers in the innovation and diffusion of technical change
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| Unique citing works | 19 |
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| Citations per year | 0,88 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2020 (27) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 23 |