{"product_id":"9781849961387","title":"Electronic Value Exchange : Origins of the VISA Electronic Payment System by David L. Stearns","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308573995381,"sku":"9781849961387","price":139.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781849961387.jpg?v=1762808083","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781849961387","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}