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Technology and Culture

Volume 40, Number 3, July 1999

E-ISSN: 1097-3729 Print ISSN: 0040-165X

DOI: 10.1353/tech.1999.0117

Churella, Albert J., 1964-
The Engine That Could: 75 Years of Values-Driven Change at Cummins Engine Company
Technology and Culture - Volume 40, Number 3, July 1999, pp. 681-683

The Johns Hopkins University Press

Jeffrey L. Cruikshank and David B. Sicilia - Book Review: The Engine That Could: 75 Years of Values-Driven Change at Cummins Engine Company - Technology and Culture 40:3 Technology and Culture 40.3 (1999) 681-683 Book Review The Engine That Could: 75 Years of Values-Driven Change at Cummins Engine Company* The Engine That Could: 75 Years of Values-Driven Change at Cummins Engine Company. By Jeffrey L. Cruikshank and David B. Sicilia. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press, 1997. Pp. ix+587; illustrations, notes/reference, index. $45. "Selling engines to engine-makers" may seem a dangerous mission for a company, something that Cummins Engine Company president Irwin Miller freely admitted (p. 511). However, The Engine That Could shows that Cummins survived and often prospered under that very strategy. Historians of technology and business have shown...


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