Tricker: Corporate Governance
Chapter 6
IBM's failure to appreciate Microsoft strategy
www.cis.usouthal.edu/faculty/daigle/project1/81ibmpc.htm
www.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/compsoft/soft1980.htm
www.roughlydrafted.com/2007/09/10/office-wars-3-how-microsoft-got-its-office-monopoly/
You could also research IBM's strategic decision to sell its PC business to Lenovo a company incorporated in Hong Kong, head-quartered in Beijing, with design centres in Raleigh-Durham USA, Japan, and China.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo
www.pc.ibm.com/ww/lenovo/investor_relations.html
South American Resources Limited
The company name here has been disguised to provide anonymity, but the policy statement is factual.
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