Electronic value exchange [electronic resource] : origins of the VISA electronic payment system / David L. Stearns.
Stearns, David L.
2011
HG1710 .S74 2011eb
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Title Electronic value exchange [electronic resource] : origins of the VISA electronic payment system / David L. Stearns.
Author Stearns, David L.
ISBN 9781849961394 (electronic bk.)
9781849961387
Publication Details London : Springer, 2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 240 p.) : ill. (some col.).
Call Number HG1710 .S74 2011eb
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[te].
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Series History of computing (London, England)
Available in Other Form Electronic value exchange.
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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.

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