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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: rise and fall of big lumber
  name:
    name part: Douma, Michael J.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: History.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource : illustrations.
  abstract: By 1850, lumber was the second-largest industry in the United States. When writing about the era of U.S. industrialization, historians have tended to focus on iron, steel, and smoke as the symbols of U.S. progress and prosperity. Although railroads and steelmaking were crucial for industrialization, wood remained an essential raw material for construction and fuel. New industrial technology made it easier to cut down trees and slice them into boards before shipping them across the country. But profits in the lumber industry were gained primarily through organizational advantages such as vertical and horizontal integration, increased economies of scale, and by improved knowledge of how to meet ever-changing supply and demand. The lumber industry peaked in the 1920s and declined in the 1930s. Lessons from the rise and fall of big lumber illustrate that not all progress is driven by technology improvements; rather, some progress is driven, at least in part, by organizational changes. But what are the natural limits of a company's growth in an industry like lumber? If the market was concerned only with efficiency, what would be best: a single national company, competition between a small number of large firms, or a heterogeneous mix of companies of various sizes?
  target audience: specialized
  note: Michael J. Douma.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Lumber trade
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Bois
    topic: Commerce
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Lumber trade
  classification: HD9750.5 .D68 2021
  classification: 338.1749
  related item:
    title info:
      title: SAGE Business Cases
  identifier: 9781529758085
  identifier: 1529758084
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: SGPBL
    record creation date: 201109
    record change date: 20240923172028.3
    record identifier: in00005500105
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng