AN EVOLUTIONARY EXPLANATION FOR COMPETITIVE DECLINE - THE BRITISH SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRY, 1890-1970
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
LORENZ, EH
刊物名称：
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY
ISSN/ISSBN：
0022-0507
DOI：
10.1017/S002205070004016X
发表日期：
1991
页码：
911-935
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摘要：
British shipbuilding enjoyed undisputed international supremacy between 1890 and 1914. Following a gradual loss of world market share during the interwar years, Britain sustained an absolute decline in output between 1948 and 1970. European shipbuilding expanded at an unprecedented rate after World War II. This article attributes Britain's dramatic competitive decline in part to management's uncertainty about the need to reform work administration methods during the decade or so following World War II, and in part to lack of trust between labor and management, which resulted in a failure of cooperation over proposed institutional reform between 1958 and 1965.