The Structure of the Computer Industry

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Abstract:

This study updates the assessment of the industrial and market structure of the computer manufacturing and software development industries. It describes the structure of these industries in terms of market concentration, barriers to entry, organizational strategies, and legal issues. It also examines the impact of the PC revolution on the market structure of computer manufacturing and software development. Additionally, it describes and analyzes events in computer manufacturing and software development since the late 1980s in terms of alliances, mergers, and market concentration, as the computer industry out marginal participants and re-aligns market power and technology rights of major players. The study forecasts a ten year scenario for the evolution of the computer manufacturing and software development industries by extrapolating from recent events and from histories of similar mature industries. market structure and computer manufacturing market structure and software development barriers to entry and computer industry microcomputer and revolution legal issues and computer industries strategies and computer industry forecast and computer industry.

Author(s):
Mcdonald, Iii, Roger L.
Author Organization(s):
NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
Descriptive Note:
Master's thesis
Pagination:
0214

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DOCUMENT & CONTEXTUAL SUMMARY

Distribution:
Approved For Public Release
Distribution Statement:
Approved For Public Release; Distribution Is Unlimited.

RECORD

Collection: TR
Identifying Numbers
Monitor Series:
NPS
 Subject Terms
Joint Capability Areas:
JCA_5_Command and Control; JCA_5.3_Planning; JCA_6_Net Centric; JCA_6.4.1_Secure Information Exchange; JCA_5.3.3_Develop Strategy; JCA_2_Battlespace Awareness; JCA_2.1_Planning and Direction; JCA_2.1.2_Develop Strategies; JCA_5.2_Understand; JCA_6.4_Information Assurance; JCA_5.1.1_Establish and Maintain Unity of Effort with Mission Partners; JCA_5.1_Organize; JCA_4.6_Engineering; JCA_5.2.3_Share Knowledge and Situational Awareness; JCA_6.1.3_Switching and Routing; JCA_6.1.2_Wireless Transmission; JCA_6.1_Information Transport; JCA_1_Force Support; JCA_4.6.1_General Engineering; JCA_1.2_Force Preparation; JCA_5.5_Direct
Modernization Areas:
Quantum Science and Computing; Microelectronics
Communities of Interest:
Energy and Power Technologies
Descriptor(s):
*COMPUTERS, *ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, SCENARIOS, INDUSTRIES, MANUFACTURING, THESES, POWER, MICROCOMPUTERS, BARRIERS, STRUCTURES, STRATEGY, IMPACT
Field(s)/Group(s):
Economics and Cost Analysis, Electrical and Electronic Equipment, Computer Programming and Software, Computer Hardware
Report Date:
1992 Mar 01