In the wastelands of post-war Tokyo, two men, Akio Morita and Masaru Ibuka, formed the company that was to become one of the greatest corporations of the 20th century. In this text, John Nathan tells the story of how a small family business became a multi-national with a turnover of billions, whose products are sold throughout the world. One of Sony's greatest early achievements was the Trinitron colour television - by 1998 180 million had been sold world wide. Over the years Sony took recording into the digital age with ...
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In the wastelands of post-war Tokyo, two men, Akio Morita and Masaru Ibuka, formed the company that was to become one of the greatest corporations of the 20th century. In this text, John Nathan tells the story of how a small family business became a multi-national with a turnover of billions, whose products are sold throughout the world. One of Sony's greatest early achievements was the Trinitron colour television - by 1998 180 million had been sold world wide. Over the years Sony took recording into the digital age with the compact disc, transformed the way music is listened to with the Walkman, and redrew the computer games market with the Playstation, among many other successes. Sony matched its revolutionary technology with revolutionary methods of marketing - it was one of the first corporations to embrace globalization. So began a dramatic clash of two cultures, one rooted in Japanese native tradition and the other irreconcilably western.
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Very good Good jacket. Good in Good unclipped dust jacket. Jacket some general wear to front back and edges. Lightly used with faint liquid stains top edge of pages. NO markings in text; binding is tight. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.
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Fine in fine jacket. Fine, fresh, unread copy. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 347 pp. with index. From its inauspicious beginnings amid Tokyo's bomb-scarred ruins to their role as the late 20th century's chief purveyor of electronics, Sony's story is one of the signal fables of our age. The author, an expert on Japanese culture, pulls the veil from one of the world's most successful and most secretive companies.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. xvi, 347 pp. Previous owner bookplate on front pastedown. The jacket has light rubbing to the corners. The history of, and emotional realtionships at the top of, SONY Corporation.