Management in a competitive environment. The experience of tandbergs radiofabrikk a/s

When the late Vebjorn Tandberg founded his company in 1933 to manufacture loudspeakers for wireless sets, he could hardly have expected that he would lead it through forty years of harmonious growth or that it would crash so spectacularly, and with so much acrimony and confusion. This paper describes the technical and financial background and suggests reasons for the course of events