Electronic Value Exchange : Origins of the VISA Electronic Payment System Paperback / softback
by David L. Stearns
Part of the History of Computing series
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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 operate; supplies a detailed case study, highlighting the mutual shaping of technology and social relations, and the influence that earlier information processing practices have on the way firms adopt computers and telecommunications; examines how “gateways” in transactional networks can reinforce or undermine established social boundaries, and reviews the establishment of trust in new payment devices.
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- Pages:240 pages, XXVIII, 240 p.
- Publisher:Springer London Ltd
- Publication Date:25/02/2013
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- ISBN:9781447126232
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:240 pages, XXVIII, 240 p.
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- Publication Date:25/02/2013
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- ISBN:9781447126232