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Product Identifiers
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan The Limited
ISBN-100230389104
ISBN-139780230389106
eBay Product ID (ePID)117261578
Product Key Features
Number of PagesXvii, 348 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameEarly Computer Industry : Limitations of Scale and Scope
SubjectIndustries / Computers & Information Technology, Leadership, Sociology / General, Strategic Planning
Publication Year2012
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaSocial Science, Business & Economics
AuthorAnthony Gandy
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight198 Oz
Item Length10.8 in
Item Width5.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2012-038806
Dewey Edition23
TitleLeadingThe
Reviews"For those of a certain age, it is impossible to read this comprehensive and fascinating book without an occasional tear." - David Birch, financialworld.co.uk
Number of Volumes1 vol.
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal338.47004
Table Of ContentList 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
SynopsisUses 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., A comprehensive guide to why major companies with a heritage in electronics failed to establish themselves as leaders in the computer industry. The author uses case studies to analyze the efforts of GE, RCA, English Electric, EMI and Ferranti to compete with business machine firms in the early mainframe computer market, primarily focusing on the USA's IBM and the UK's ICT. These cases cover many important themes in enterprise organization and capabilities, and how the heritage from which these firms came was important to the performance of the corporation in a new and innovative market place. It critiques the value of economies of scope in productive and technical capabilities unless matched to equal competencies in customer understanding and market reach, and provides a guide to both the business strategies and the technologies, which were fundamental to building our current information society., This book presents new methods for resolving important puzzles in macrodynamic analysis; firstly detecting causal relations among changing dynamic variables, and secondly estimating the divisions of nominal income change into output change and price level change. The first topic is the basis of analysis of economic growth and business cycle phenomena, and as such has significant policy implications both in the medium and long term, for economic growth and development. The second topic is a quest for Milton Freidman's "missing equations;" since this topic is vital for any analysis of inflation and output growth, and builds on Philips' curve phenomena, it will have important consequences for current policy discussions. Amano builds on careful empirical analyses, examining data from different countries and periods.
LC Classification NumberHD30.28
