'Failure to communicate. British telecommunications and the American model' in J Zeitlin & G Herrigel (eds), Americanisation and its Limits. Reworking US technology and management in post war Europe and Japan

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Author(s) Lipartito, Kenneth
Publication type Chapter
Year published 2000
Pages pp153-79
Publisher Oxford University Press
Place Published Oxford

Topics:

Name Transfer of technology, processes, management techniques, etc
Name Comparative international studies
Name Production of goods & services - methods & organisation

Countries:

United States

Library:

Name British Library
City London
County Greater London
Country England
Postcode NW1 2DB
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Examines the industry in terms of its network and its equipment manufacturing, especially 1945-70 but also earlier, and its initial failure to adopt American techniques and its later failure in adopting flawed American techniques