Intercompany Technical Standardization in the Early American Automobile Industry*

George V. Thompson

The Journal of Economic History, 1954, vol. 14, issue 1, 1-20

Abstract: Industrial historians have generally failed to note the importance of the technical standards that have been developed through intercompany agreements in the automobile industry. While they have studied the changing institutional character of American industry and have chronicled the mechanical developments of recent technology, they have undertaken but few explorations into die complex interrelationships between mechanical technology and business structure. In relating the growdi of intercompany technical standards' in the automobile industry up to about 1930, this study attempts to show the influence of changing business conditions on standardization and hence on the mechanical technology of the automobile.

Date: 1954
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