TOM BURNS and G. M. STALKER
- Published in print:
- 1994
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198288787
- eISBN:
- 9780191684630
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198288787.003.0004
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Innovation, Organization Studies
This chapter discusses the importance of the Government market in the formative years of the post-war electronics industry. It describes the treatment of the market as a sink, into which a firm tries ...
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This chapter discusses the importance of the Government market in the formative years of the post-war electronics industry. It describes the treatment of the market as a sink, into which a firm tries to pour applications of techniques known to the firm, or as a continuing source of needs, actual and potential, which the firm tries to satisfy. Whether a firm treated the market as a sink or as a source appears to have been the most important determinant of its success.Less
This chapter discusses the importance of the Government market in the formative years of the post-war electronics industry. It describes the treatment of the market as a sink, into which a firm tries to pour applications of techniques known to the firm, or as a continuing source of needs, actual and potential, which the firm tries to satisfy. Whether a firm treated the market as a sink or as a source appears to have been the most important determinant of its success.
