Background
Albert John Churella was born on October 3, 1964 in Columbus, Ohio, United States, the son of Albert A. and Helen Churella.
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Albert John Churella
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Albert graduated from Haverford College with B.A. in 1986 and from Ohio State University with M.A. in 1990. There he received Ph.D. in 1994.
Career
Albert was an environmental education instructor for Tennessee, Valley Authority and University of Wisconsin-
Madison from 1986 to 1987. He then worked at Northern State University, Aberdeen, as a visiting assistant professor of history from 1994 to 1995 and at Ohio State University, Columbus, as a senior lecturer in history from 1995 to 1999. From 1999 he works at Ohio State University at Lima as a visiting assistant professor of history.
Albert is a contributor of articles and reviews to economic, history, and business journals, including Business History Review, Business and Economic History, and Essays in Economic and Business History.
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Albert Churella is a prominent educator and writer who received Newcomen Special Article Award in Business History, Newcomen Society and Harvard Business School, 1995, for the article "Corporate Culture and Marketing in the American Railway Locomotive Industry: American Locomotive and Electro - Motive Respond to Dieselization."
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Albert J. Churella told CA: "While pursuing a bachelor's degree in economics, I developed an increasing awareness for and appreciation of the human idiosyncrasies that so frequently complicate detailed and rigorous regression analyses of specif ic microeconomic problem sets. As a historian, I focused my interests on the intersection of business history, the history of technology, and social and cultural history. In particular, my work revolves around the ways in which managerial corporate culture tends to restrain the activities of individuals and organizations. My work demonstrates that, while corporate culture can often contribute to business success, that same culture is all too often illequipped to cope with radical technological change. This problem is particularly onerous when companies find it necessary to undertake the difficult transition from the small-scale manufacture of custom-designed items to the mass production of standard-design products. Such was the case in the railway locomotive industry. Steam locomotive builders possessed a corporate culture that was manifestly unable to accommodate the rapid ascendency of diesel locomotives. As a consequence, these established companies remained committed to a technological trajectory that, while successful in the steam locomotive industry, failed disastrously in the diesel locomotive industry. New entrants, with radically different corporate cultures, accordingly enjoyed far greater success in diesel locomotive production.
"Future projects will center around the impact of regional economic transitions in the American Southwest and northern Mexico on technologies, business, government, the environment, and various ethnic groups. As high-tech industries, tourism, and retirement communities replace traditional extractive industries (mining, ranching, logging, and farming), individuals struggle to redefine social boundaries and reinterpret the role of local, state, and national governments in their communities. Such a project will not only set these debates in their historical context; it will also serve as a guide for ongoing discussions of these issues."
Membership
Albert is a member of American Historical Association, Business History Society, Economic and Business Historical Society, Society for the History of Technology, Railway and Locomotive Historical Society, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Alpha Theta.
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Albert married Marianne Holdzkom, an historian, on July 22, 1995.
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1990