The Early Computer Industry: Limitations of Scale and Scope

Author:   A. Gandy
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:  

9780230389106


Pages:   348
Publication Date:   30 November 2012
Format:   Hardback
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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.

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Author:   A. Gandy
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   5.612kg
ISBN:  

9780230389106


ISBN 10:   0230389104
Pages:   348
Publication Date:   30 November 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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"""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"


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


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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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