Financial Markets and Organizational Technologies (eBook)

BERNARDO BÁTIZ-LAZO is Senior Lecturer in Business and Accounting History at the Business School, Leicester University, UK STEFANO BATTILOSSI is Associate Professor at the Department of Economic History and Institutions, Universidad Carlos III Madrid, Spain DAVID GUGERLI is Professor of History of Technology at the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland DONALD MACKENZIE holds a Personal Chair in Sociology at the University of Edinburgh, UK JOCELYN PIXLEY is Professorial Research Fellow at the Global Policy Institute, London Metropolitan University, UK, and Senior Research Fellow at Macquarie University, Sidney, Australia CLAUDIA REESE is a historian specializing in the study of the evolution of markets SUSAN V. SCOTT is Senior Lecturer in the Information Systems and Innovation Group at the Department of Management, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

Cover 1
Series 2
Title 4
Copyright 5
Contents 6
List of Figures and Tables 7
Preface 8
Notes on Contributors 10
1 Introduction: Financial Deregulation and Technological Change 12
2 The Eurodollar Revolution in Financial Technology: Deregulation, Innovation and Structural Change in Western Banking 40
3 Tensions Between Economic Policies, Technology and Bankers’ Professional Perceptions 75
4 Opening the Black Boxes of Global Finance 103
5 Data Banking: Computing and Flexibility in Swiss Banks 1960–90 128
6 Is the Future of the ATM Past? 148
7 Understanding the Characteristics of Techno-Innovation in an Era of Self-Regulated Financial Services 177
8 Techno-Organizational Diversity, Network Topologies and the Manageability of Banks 200
Author and Name Index 248
Subject Index 257