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Surveys firms' behaviors and competitive structures in American computing during the past 50 years and places the industry within the context of American political economy. It argues that leading firms such as IBM, Apple and Microsoft have exhibited a capacity to strike compromises between innovation and stability. Through selective enforcement of the antitrust laws, government has tolerated and even encouraged such behavior. The computer industry has thus followed patterns established in other endeavors such as electric power and telephony
Published in:
Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
(Volume:18
,
Issue:
2
)
Date of Publication: Summer 1996
- Page(s):
- 30 - 39
- ISSN :
- 1058-6180
- INSPEC Accession Number:
- 5272990
- Digital Object Identifier :
- 10.1109/85.489748
- Product Type:
- Journals & Magazines
- Date of Current Version :
- 06 August 2002
- Issue Date :
- Summer 1996
- Sponsored by :
- IEEE Computer Society
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