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As early as 1948, when researchers discovered the ‘transistor effect’, it was evident that vacuum tubes in television sets had become technologically obsolete. Within a few years, transistor manufacturers were predicting that by 1961 half the television sets then in use would employ transistors instead of vacuum tubes.
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See Michael E. Porter, Competitive Strategy (New York: Free Press, 1980) ch. 8. The book also contains a treatment of exit barriers and other industry and competitor characteristics discussed in this chapter.
See, for example, Stuart C. Gilmour, ‘The Divestment Decision Process’, DBA dissertation, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, 1973;
and Kathryn Rudie Harrigan, Strategies for Declining Businesses (Lexington, Mass.: D. C. Heath, 1980).
See Nitin T. Mehta, ‘Policy Formulation in a Declining Industry: The Case of the Canadian Dissolving Pulp Industry’, DBA dissertation, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, 1978.
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Harrigan, K.R., Porter, M.E. (1989). End-game Strategies for Declining Industries. In: Asch, D., Bowman, C. (eds) Readings in Strategic Management. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20317-8_16
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