IBM 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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Main Author: Cortada, James W.,
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2019.
Physical Description: xxii, 723 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series: History of computing.
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Table of 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.