| Description |
1 online resource (xxviii, 240 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
History of computing, 2190-6831 |
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History of computing (London, England)
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| Contents |
Setting the stage : money, credit, and payments in America -- Associating : Dee Hock and the creation of the organization -- Crafting the social dynamics : staffing, operating regulations, and advertising -- Automating authorization : BASE -- Automating clearing and settlement : BASE II and III -- Expanding the system : organizational and technical growth -- Automating the point of sale : encoding standards and merchant dial terminals -- Challenging conceptual barriers : EFT and the debit card -- Negotiating roles : controversies and the end of an era -- Conclusion : toward a general sociotechnical history of payment systems |
| Summary |
Electronic Value Exchange examines in detail the transformation of the VISA electronic payment system from a collection of non-integrated, localized, paper-based bank credit card programs into the cooperative, global, electronic value exchange network it is today. Topics and features: provides a history of the VISA system from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s; presents a historical narrative based on research gathered from personal documents and interviews with key actors; investigates, for the first time, both the technological and social infrastructures necessary for the VISA system to opera |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| In |
Springer eBooks |
| Subject |
VISA International.
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| SUBJECT |
VISA International fast |
| Subject |
Electronic funds transfers -- History
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Operating systems (Computers)
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data processing.
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computer science.
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operating systems.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Banks & Banking.
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Informatique.
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Electronic funds transfers
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Elektronischer Zahlungsverkehr
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Kreditkartengeschäft
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Überweisung
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781849961394 |
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1849961395 |
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1849961387 |
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9781849961387 |
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