Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

This episode is about the famous War of the Currents from the late nineteenth century.

The film we watched is from twenty seventeen, The Current War, directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon and distributed by One O One Studios.

We also read two papers from Administrative Science Quarterly, Michael Tushman and Philip Anderson's Technological Discontinuities and Organizational Environments from nineteen eighty-six, and Benjamin Cole and David Chandler's A Model of Competitive Impression Management: Edison versus Westinghouse in the War of the Currents from twenty nineteen.

The War of the Currents was a real competition between two important industrial figures, Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse, over which type of power would become the dominant standard for distributing electricity across the United States.