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AT&T's divestiture was the largest corporate reorganization in history and has had international repercussions. It was a major development in American economic policy, and a prominent part of the deregulation movement of the late 1970s. This study reveals the internal decision-making process at AT&T and explains how private and public interests combined to shape corporate and public policy in late 20th-century America. Temin weaves the strands of politics, economics, business, and law into an accessible narrative history that will be of interest to the general reader who wants to know about government business interaction and how it affects American citizens. Temin portrays divestiture as a great experiment in public policy, competition, openness, and international policy. He concludes that the experiment has been a mix of deliberate design and uncontrollable forces whose outcome was not foreseen.
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AT&T's divestiture was the largest corporate reorganization in history and has had international repercussions. It was a major development in American economic policy, and a prominent part of the deregulation movement of the late 1970s.
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The Bell System of 1971 was distinguished not only by its size and the problems it faced, but also by the unique relationships it had established over almost a century of dealing with state and federal governments. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
toll rate disparity, divested operating companies, ordinary long distance service, operating company presidents, corporate planning organization, message toll service, separated subsidiaries, new consent decree, separated subsidiary, nationwide averaging, specialized common carriers, private line rates, low local rates, terminal equipment market, divestiture planning, private microwave systems, interstate revenues, interexchange services, divestiture decree, operating vice presidents, unusual obligation, intercity carriers, terminal interconnection, regional holding companies, public utility concept Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bell System, Western Electric, Bell Labs, New York, Van Deerlin, United States, Bell Operating Companies, Modification of Final, Assistant Attorney General, Ist Session, New Jersey, Alvin von Auw, World War, Illinois Bell, Telecommunications Reports, American Bell, Defense Department, Pacific Telephone, Office of the Chairman, Western Union, Bernard Strassburg, Common Carrier Bureau, Federal Communications Commission, Henry Geller, Management Report New!
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The Bell System of 1971 was distinguished not only by its size and the problems it faced, but also by the unique relationships it had established over almost a century of dealing with state and federal governments. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
toll rate disparity, divested operating companies, ordinary long distance service, operating company presidents, corporate planning organization, message toll service, separated subsidiaries, new consent decree, separated subsidiary, nationwide averaging, specialized common carriers, private line rates, low local rates, terminal equipment market, divestiture planning, private microwave systems, interstate revenues, interexchange services, divestiture decree, operating vice presidents, unusual obligation, intercity carriers, terminal interconnection, regional holding companies, public utility concept Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bell System, Western Electric, Bell Labs, New York, Van Deerlin, United States, Bell Operating Companies, Modification of Final, Assistant Attorney General, Ist Session, New Jersey, Alvin von Auw, World War, Illinois Bell, Telecommunications Reports, American Bell, Defense Department, Pacific Telephone, Office of the Chairman, Western Union, Bernard Strassburg, Common Carrier Bureau, Federal Communications Commission, Henry Geller, Management Report New!
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Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of the American Industrial Enterprise by Alfred D. Chandler on page 164, page 167, and page 348
- The Politics of Deregulation by Martha Derthick on page 129, page 190, and page 346
- Economics of Competition in the Telecommunications Industry by C River on page 24, and page 124
- Breaking Up Bell: Essays on Industrial Organization and Regulation (Cera Research Study) by David S. Evans on page 250, and page 355
- Competition and Cross-Subsidization in the Telephone Industry (Rand Corporation//Rand Report) by Leland L. Johnson on page 24, and page 357
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- Organizational Learning in the Global Context by M. Leann Brown on page 95, and Back Matter
- A Nation Transformed by Information: How Information Has Shaped the United States from Colonial Times to the Present by Alfred D. Chandler in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Foreign Investment in American Telecommunications by J. Gregory Sidak on page 23, and Back Matter
- Net Loss: Internet Prophets, Private Profits, and the Costs to Community by Nathan Newman in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Multimedia Internet Broadcasting: Quality, Technology, and Interface (Computer Communications and Networks) by Andy Sloane on page 159
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