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The Early Computer Industry

Limitations of Scale and Scope

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-1-349-35105-3
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
Erscheinungstermin: 30.11.2012
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Uses case studies to explore why large scale electronics failed to win a leadership position in the early computer industry and why IBM, a firm with a heritage in the business machines industry, succeeded. The cases cover both the US and the UK industry focusing on electronics giants GE, RCA, English Electric, EMI and Ferranti.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9781349351053
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-1-349-35105-3
  • Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Erscheinungstermin: 30.11.2012
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage 2013
  • Produktform: Kartoniert
  • Gewicht: 456 g
  • Seiten: 348
  • Format (B x H): 140 x 216 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
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List of Tables List of Figures Prologue Acknowledgements A Note on Referencing Styles Historiography Scope, Scale, Concentric Diversification and the Black Box RCA and the Electronic Data Processing Business General Electric and the Commercial Data Processing Market The Ferranti Company and the Early Computer Industry Electrical and Musical Industries Strategies and organisations of IBM and ICT IBM's other Competitors Conclusions: Concentric Diversification versus Market Specialisation and the Problem of Resource Allocation