Bibliographic Essay

A large number of books and scholarly articles have been published about IBM, and the company has received continuous extensive press coverage for decades. While a definitive bibliography of studies of the company would run to scores of book titles and even more articles, this bibliographic essay will point out key works. For a detailed bibliography, however, along with an account of many archival sources, consult Jeffrey R. Yost, ed., The IBM Century: Creating the IT Revolution (Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society, 2011). It is also an anthology of articles written by IBM employees about the history of the firm. The endnotes in my history of IBM cite other sources, such as internal IBM publications, newspaper and magazine articles, and archival materials. IBM has a well-organized corporate archive, and the Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota has many business collections relevant to this company's history. Also not to be overlooked are the Watson Papers at New York University.