Globalization of the Computer Industry
Jason P. Dedrick, Kenneth L. Kraemer · 1998
Abstract During the 1980s, the computer industry changed from a company-and country-based production structure into a global production system with little regard for company or country boundaries. The agent of change was the introduction of the personal computer, which transformed the way computers were designed, built, sold, and used. No longer were computers primarily made by large, vertically integrated companies to their own proprietary standards using their own components, peripherals, and software. Instead, PCs were designed and assembled according to common standards using components, peripherals, and software made by thousands of suppliers.