'Back to the future. The aircraft and IT industries in Britain since 1945' in R Coopey & P Lyth (eds), Business in Britain in the Twentieth Century
Details:
- Author(s) Coopey, Richard, & Peter Lyth
- Publication type Chapter
- Year published 2009
- Pages pp225-51
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Place Published Oxford
Topics:
- 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:
Explores the experience of two advanced technology industries in the post war period - airframe and aero-engine manufacture and computer manufacture - and the seeming failure of both industries to live up to their early promise of 1945, seeking explanations for this and emphasising a mix of 'failures and successes' and complexity of the experience and finding no 'blanket explanations' of decline 'so often attribute the failure of high technology industries in Britain