1. SANDEEP DEVANATHA PILLAI
Information acquired: 2025
SANDEEP DEVANATHA PILLAI is an academic who published a paper in 2019 entitled HISTORICAL EXPLANATION IN STRATEGY RESEARCH: LEARNING BY SCALING IN THE EARLY AMERICAN AUTOMOBILE IN. SANDEEP DEVANATHA PILLAI published this work as part of a team: Devanatha Pillai, Sandeep. Here is a description of this work: This dissertation uses the historical explanation to engage in an abductive study of the early American automobile industry (1895-1918). The dissertation suggests that historical explanation is a valuable complement to abductive research. Historical explanation increases the number of hypotheses considered through the temporal perspective it offers and through contextualization. Historical explanation also adjudicates between likely hypotheses to determine the loveliest explanation by evaluating explanatory coherence and consilience. Further, the practical use of the historical explanation is demonstrated by analyzing the challenges that firms faced while attempting to scale manufacturing during the early American automobile industry (1895-1918). The analysis identifies metalworking knowledge as a sp.