Entry of Established Electronics Firms into the Early Computer Industry in the UK and USA

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  • Name Comparative international studies
  • Name Government intervention exc legislation & regulation
  • Name Business/Industry failure, decline, lack of success, etc: decline of industries

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  • United States

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See the writer's 'Early Computer Industry. Limitations of scale and scope', Palgrave, 2013. Explores why established electronics businesses in Britain and USA to 1970s failed to build their computer production businesses while focused business machine producers succeeded. Based on case studies of British and US businesses, the former being Ferranti Brothers Ltd, EMI Ltd and English Electric Ltd with some coverage also of International Computer & Tabulator Co Ltd. Role of governments also explored