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- Type:
- Document
- Date Created:
- 1996
- Collection:
- System Dynamic Society Records
- Collecting Area:
- University Archives
- Collection ID:
- ua435
- Parent Record(s):
- 23d738ba88f8333bc39725f9cb5bd0b8, ca4810593b2703dcaa087957ab13af91, and 227da936724c4223c5a64764d3922694
- Description:
- Cyclicality is well-known phenomenon in many capital goods industries. It is especially pronounced in the machine tool industry where peak-to-peak in incoming orders often exceed 100% of mean sales. While extreme cyclicality in the machine tool industry and its resulting problems are well documented (Bowen et al. 1989: Dertouzos, Lester and Solow 1989: Neary 1993), the underlying causes and the potential levers to reduce it are so far not well understood.