Doing It for Themselves: The Steel Company of Wales and the Study of American Industrial Productivity, 1945–1955
本文研究二战后一家英国钢铁公司如何自主获取美国工业生产率知识，发现其行动比马歇尔计划下的正式生产率考察团更早、更广泛且重点不同，强调企业是生产率知识收集与传播的积极参与者。
This article examines the efforts of one British steel company to acquire knowledge about American industrial productivity in the first post-World War II decade. It argues that company information-gathering initiatives in this period were overshadowed by the work of the formal productivity missions of the Marshall Plan era. In particular, it compares the activities of the Steel Company of Wales with the Anglo-American Council on Productivity (AACP), whose iron and steel industry productivity team report was published in 1952. Based on evidence from its business records, this study shows that the Steel Company of Wales was undertaking its own international productivity investigations, which started earlier and were more extensive and differently focused from those of the AACP. It makes the case for viewing companies as active participants in the gathering and dissemination of productivity knowledge in Britain’s steel sector after 1945.