Margaret B W Graham
Biographic Data
| ID | 1149708 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margaret B W Graham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margaret B W |
| FAMILY NAME | Graham |
| SIGNATURE | GRAHAM M B W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Glasgow Caledonian University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
When the Corporation Almost Displaced the Entrepreneur
In 1988 I had the dubious distinction of being billed "The World's Expert on Failure" in the South Korean press. This headline came about when I shared the findings from my book on the RCA VideoDisc with the top hundred or so executives and staff members of Samsung Electronics. They were engaged in the strategic planning exercise that would mark Samsung's explosive entrance onto the international stage, as local host of the Olympics and as export…
Intellectual property and the professionals
Charging for Admission to Museums and Galleries
Changes in information technology, changes in work
From Machine Shop to Industrial Laboratory
From, Machine Shop to Industrial Laboratory
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 413 began with brass buttons. His sons found a small but steady market for rolled zinc. They learned the idiosyncracies of working zinc few others would bother with. As demand for one product declined, they shifted to another: the Platts made, successively, zinc tent buttons for the army in the Civil War, riveted zinc fly buttons, the zinc strip for shoelace ferrules, and precision strip for the fusible links o…
R & D for Industry
R & D for Industry
Journal Article R&D for Industry: A Century of Technical Innovation at Alcoa. By Margaret B. W. Graham and Bettye H. Pruitt. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. x + 645 pp. $49.50, ISBN 0-521-39413-9.) Get access José E. Igartua José E. Igartua University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 2, September 1992, Page 683, https://d…
RCA and the VideoDisc
Selectavision VideoDisc: opportunity and risk 2. David Sarnoff: industrial entrepreneur 3. Research as prime mover 4. Laboratory as entrepreneur: videoplayer research begins 5. Selectavision Holotape: RCA's professional innovation 6. Everything ventured 7. All in the family 8. VideoDisc in the public eye 9. RCA's 'Manhattan Project' 10. On the market 11. Managing R&D: lessons from RCA Appendix Notes Index.
R&D and Competition in England and the United States
This historical comparison of the Vickers and Alcoa experiences with “borrowed” German airship technology highlights the importance of studying the way industrial R&D has been organized, both within industries and inside individual companies. Professor Graham shows that Alcoa's move in 1919 to organize its corporate Technical Department to include balanced research and development capabilities allowed it not only to appropriate Duralumin technolo…
RCA and the VideoDisc
RCA and the Videodisc
Corporate research and development
R & D for Industry
Journal Article R&D for Industry: A Century of Technical Innovation at Alcoa. By Margaret B. W. Graham and Bettye H. Pruitt. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. x + 645 pp. $49.50, ISBN 0-521-39413-9.) Get access José E. Igartua José E. Igartua University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 2, September 1992, Page 683, https://d…
R&D and Competition in England and the United States
This historical comparison of the Vickers and Alcoa experiences with “borrowed” German airship technology highlights the importance of studying the way industrial R&D has been organized, both within industries and inside individual companies. Professor Graham shows that Alcoa's move in 1919 to organize its corporate Technical Department to include balanced research and development capabilities allowed it not only to appropriate Duralumin technolo…
When the Corporation Almost Displaced the Entrepreneur
In 1988 I had the dubious distinction of being billed "The World's Expert on Failure" in the South Korean press. This headline came about when I shared the findings from my book on the RCA VideoDisc with the top hundred or so executives and staff members of Samsung Electronics. They were engaged in the strategic planning exercise that would mark Samsung's explosive entrance onto the international stage, as local host of the Olympics and as export…
Charging for Admission to Museums and Galleries
Changes in information technology, changes in work
Corporate research and development
Corporate research and development
RCA and the Videodisc
R&D and Competition in England and the United States
This historical comparison of the Vickers and Alcoa experiences with “borrowed” German airship technology highlights the importance of studying the way industrial R&D has been organized, both within industries and inside individual companies. Professor Graham shows that Alcoa's move in 1919 to organize its corporate Technical Department to include balanced research and development capabilities allowed it not only to appropriate Duralumin technolo…
RCA and the VideoDisc
RCA and the VideoDisc
Selectavision VideoDisc: opportunity and risk 2. David Sarnoff: industrial entrepreneur 3. Research as prime mover 4. Laboratory as entrepreneur: videoplayer research begins 5. Selectavision Holotape: RCA's professional innovation 6. Everything ventured 7. All in the family 8. VideoDisc in the public eye 9. RCA's 'Manhattan Project' 10. On the market 11. Managing R&D: lessons from RCA Appendix Notes Index.
R & D for Industry
Journal Article R&D for Industry: A Century of Technical Innovation at Alcoa. By Margaret B. W. Graham and Bettye H. Pruitt. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. x + 645 pp. $49.50, ISBN 0-521-39413-9.) Get access José E. Igartua José E. Igartua University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 2, September 1992, Page 683, https://d…
R & D for Industry
From Machine Shop to Industrial Laboratory
From, Machine Shop to Industrial Laboratory
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 413 began with brass buttons. His sons found a small but steady market for rolled zinc. They learned the idiosyncracies of working zinc few others would bother with. As demand for one product declined, they shifted to another: the Platts made, successively, zinc tent buttons for the army in the Civil War, riveted zinc fly buttons, the zinc strip for shoelace ferrules, and precision strip for the fusible links o…
Changes in information technology, changes in work
Charging for Admission to Museums and Galleries
Intellectual property and the professionals
When the Corporation Almost Displaced the Entrepreneur
In 1988 I had the dubious distinction of being billed "The World's Expert on Failure" in the South Korean press. This headline came about when I shared the findings from my book on the RCA VideoDisc with the top hundred or so executives and staff members of Samsung Electronics. They were engaged in the strategic planning exercise that would mark Samsung's explosive entrance onto the international stage, as local host of the Olympics and as export…
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