 Technology, knowledge, and manufacturing before the Industrial RevolutionKalyan Singhal and Jaya Singhal Production and Operations Management, 2022, vol. 31, issue 12, 4262-4275 Abstract: Long‐term vision depends on history, and on history alone. Scholarship in technology, manufacturing, and operations management is incomplete without a knowledge of history. In chronicling the history of technology, knowledge, and manufacturing, we have traced the remarkable continuity in the evolution of humans from hominins to homo sapiens, in the migration of homo sapiens from Africa to the furthest reaches of the world, and in the rise of civilizations and industrialization driven by agriculture surplus. Technology, knowledge, and manufacturing did not and do not exist in isolation and many disciplines have addressed them in the literature. Here, we concern ourselves with human history until 1760, roughly when the Industrial Revolution began. Our companion paper, Singhal and Singhal (2022; Technology and manufacturing‐and‐service operations 1760–1945. Production and Operations Management, this issue), explores the history of technology and manufacturing‐and‐service operations since the Industrial Revolution. Date: 2022 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bla:popmgt:v:31:y:2022:i:12:p:4262-4275 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Production and Operations Management is currently edited by Kalyan Singhal More articles in Production and Operations Management from Production and Operations Management Society |
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