Failure to Communicate: British Telecommunications and the American Model

Americanization and Its Limits: Reworking US Technology and Management in Post-war Europe and Japan

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Lipartito, Kenneth ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bell system; Britain; Telecommunications equipment manufacturing; Telecommunications policy; Telecommunications service

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919624923     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199269044.003.0005     Document Type: Chapter

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