The rise and demise of the Irish and Scottish computer hardware industry
This paper examines the dynamics of the computer hardware industry in Ireland and Scotland in a global context, from its inception in the late 1950s to the present. It provides a detailed account of plant openings and closures in both the system assembly and the component manufacturing segment. It describes the development of the computer hardware industry from mainframe assembly, through minicomputer assembly to microcomputer assembly and the shift of system assembly and component production activity to the Far East and Eastern Europe since the mid-1990s. The developments are analysed in terms of <italic>Schoenberger's (1997)</italic> model of concentrated deconcentration in the context of time-based-competition. It is shown that the model, with substantial qualification, fits the developments since the 1980s.
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2004
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Authors: | Egeraat, Chris van ; Jacobson, David |
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European Planning Studies. - Taylor & Francis Journals, ISSN 0965-4313. - Vol. 12.2004, 6, p. 809-834
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Taylor & Francis Journals |
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