The Early Computer Industry: Limitations of Scale and Scope by Gandy, A.

The Early Computer Industry: Limitations of Scale and Scope (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780230389106)

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The Early Computer Industry: Limitations of Scale and Scope by Gandy, A.

The Early Computer Industry: Limitations of Scale and Scope

$109.99
The Early Computer Industry: Limitations of Scale and Scope by Gandy, A.

The Early Computer Industry: Limitations of Scale and Scope

$109.99
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: A. Gandy
ISBN-10: 0230389104
ISBN-13: 9780230389106
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 11/30/2012
Pages: 348
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.60w x 1.10d
By A. Gandy
By A. Gandy
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TONY GANDY is a reader at IFS School of Finance, UK. After a period as a journalist he worked for an investment bank and spent 15 years running his own small consulting firm mainly specialising in the overlap of banking and technology. His research interests include competition in the early computer industry, innovation in bank delivery channels, strategy and competition in services (financial enterprises) and industrial companies, and banking technology.

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