Electronic Value Exchange
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…
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- Full title :Electronic Value Exchange.
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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.
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- Publication Date:2011.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Springer London
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2011.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (260 pages).
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1849961387, 9781849961387
- DOI:10.1007/978-1-84996-139-4
- oclc:ocn990416663
- LC Classification:HG1710 .S74 2011
- Dewey Decimal:332.17809
Table of Contents
Electronic Value Exchange; 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.
Conclusions: Toward a General Sociotechnical History of Payment SystemsAppendix Core System Statistics; References; Index.
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