British Computer Industry. Crisis and development
Details:
- Author(s) Kelly, Tim
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1987
- Pages 267pp; illus
- Publisher Croom Helm
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Government intervention exc legislation & regulation
- Name Business/Industry failure, decline, lack of success, etc: decline of industries
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Scholarly account. Reviews the history of the computer industry and the evolution of market leaders STC ICL and IBM (UK); new firm formation in the 1980s; technology policies adopted by successive governments; increased international competition. Chapters include: 'Technological change and market structure'; 'Origins of the British computer industry'; 'Growing crisis and the response of the government'; 'Five new lamps for old - new firm formation'; 'Geography of the British computer industry'