Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on March 24, 2008
Enterprise and Society 2008 9(1):207-209; doi:10.1093/es/khn010
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Henry S. Rowen, Marguerite Gong Hancock, and William F. Miller, editors. Making IT: The Rise of Asia in High Tech
Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2007. xviii + 388 pp. ISBN 978-0804753852, $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0804753869, $30.00 (paper)
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General Electric is an international high-tech icon that began with Thomas Edison and the first electrical revolution, and thrived through every one since. Like many global giants, it has firm American roots. Yet on June 1, 2007, the New York Times could publish a headline in the business section entitled "Chief Says G.E. Aims to Match the Growth Pace Set by India." In
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