Creating an Industry

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type: Journal Article
Content Type: Original Research
Abbreviated Title: J SMPTE
Volume: 74, No. 11, pp. 1015–1023
Abstract: Note: “Creating an Industry: A Case Study in the Management of Television Innovation” is a master's thesis submitted by Robert C. Bitting, Jr., at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1963. The author chose the Radio Corporation of America as the organization most suitable for special study. Much of his thesis is concerned with problems of management, but of more general interest is his anecdotal approach to the history of the Radio Corporation of America and of the development of television. The following article is comprised of Chapters II and III from the thesis, in somewhat abbreviated form.
Publication Date: 1965-11-01
DOI: 10.5594/J05981
ISSN: Print: 0361-4573
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/J05981
Author(s): Robert C. BittingFinancial Planning, Radio Corp. of America, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, N.Y. 10020
Copyright: © 1965 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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