Screen LibraryIBM : the rise and fall and reinvention of a global icon /
This is a history of IBM, a huge multinational firm, from its origins in the 1880s to the present. It demonstrates that this supplier of computers, software and information technology services played a profound role in shaping how other large organizations and economies evolved in the twentieth cent...
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The MIT Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
| Publication Dates: | [2019] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
History of computing
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| Summary: |
This is a history of IBM, a huge multinational firm, from its origins in the 1880s to the present. It demonstrates that this supplier of computers, software and information technology services played a profound role in shaping how other large organizations and economies evolved in the twentieth century. It describes its strategies, expansions, how various parts of the company collaborated and competed within the firm overcoming problems, a nearly fatal period in the early 1990s, and its recurring revivals and successes. The book is unique for several reasons. First, it is a comprehensive vol |
| Carrier Form: | xxii, 723 pages : illustrations, forms ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780262039444 (hardcover : alkaline paper) : 0262039443 (hardcover : alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | HD9696 |
| CLC: |
F471.266-09 F279.712.444-09 |
| Call Number: | F279.712.444-09/C827 |
| Contents: | From Birth to Identity: IBM in its Early Years, 1880s-1945 -- IBM The Computer Behemoth, 1945-1985 -- A Time of Crisis, 1985-1994 -- IBM in the New Century |