How computers changed the work of American financial, telecommunications, media, and entertainment industries
In: The digital hand Vol. 2
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This text provides a historical perspective on how some of the most important American industries used computing over the past half century, describing their experience, their best practices and the role of industries and technologies in changing the nature of American work
In: Contributions in economics and economic history 177
In: Princeton Studies in Business and Technology
In: Princeton Legacy Library
In: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 70,4
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In: The information society: an international journal, Band 39, Heft 5, S. 306-321
ISSN: 1087-6537
In: Enterprise & society: the international journal of business history, Band 23, Heft 1, S. 99-132
ISSN: 1467-2235
Corporations can be viewed as large information ecosystems, not more narrowly as corporate entities, and the author uses the example of IBM to defend this point. This essay illustrates issues and topics that can be studied to enhance understanding of corporate history, building on prior methods used by scholars. It builds on research the author performed in writing a history of IBM from the 1880s to the present.