The engine that could : seventy-five years of values-driven change at Cummins Engine Company
- Title
- The engine that could : seventy-five years of values-driven change at Cummins Engine Company / Jeffrey L. Cruikshank, David B. Sicilia.
- Published by
- Boston : Harvard Business School Press, [1997], ©1997.
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- Description
- vii, 589 pages; 26 cm
- Summary
- The rise of Cummins Engine Company from a tiny Indiana machine shop to one of the world's leading producers of diesel engines is a story rich with lessons for today's managers. By responding to challenges familiar to all American manufacturers with a tough competitive stance and a uniquely people-centered philosophy, Cummins has carved out a distinctive profile in the international industrial landscape.
- A compelling and important contribution to the literature of business history, The Engine that Could showcases the strategic choices and the pivotal decisions that have shaped and influenced Cummins Engine.
- Drawing extensively on interviews as well as archival research, the authors provide an in-depth look at a way of doing business that is unconventional, flexible, and pragmatic. They explain how the firm's business model has evolved over time, and how it has survived the pressures of a dramatically changing competitive arena. Cummins' remarkable seventy-five year history captures much of what is interesting - and important - about the evolution of American business from the 1920s to the 1990s.
- Subject
- Owning institution
- Columbia University Libraries
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 531-560) and index.