Article ID: CBB744597496

The Industrial Organization of Hong Kong's Progression Toward a Cashless Economy (1960s-2000s) (2016)

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A dramatic change occurred in retail banking technology in Hong Kong between 1960 and 2000. Initially, the relevant technologies were installed and managed within the boundaries of large banks, such as HSBC. Over the course of this period, however, the industrial organization of the relevant technologies transformed to include provisions outsourced to nonbank institutions. This article seeks to account for this shift in the organization of computer technology. Specifically, the authors compare the adoption of computers at HSBC in the 1960s and 1970s with the Octopus micropayment system, which was developed in the 1990s by a consortium that excluded financial firms, thanks to the development (both in terms of depth and breadth) of an epistemic community of computer professionals and computer-literate managers in Hong Kong.

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Article Kita, Chigusa; Choi, Hyungsub (2016) History of Computing in East Asia: Introduction. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing (pp. 8-9). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Keck, Frédéric
Luk, Yi Lai Christine
Peckham, Robert
Chan-Yeung, Moira M. W.
Bátiz-Lazo, Bernardo
Xiaoxuan Lu
Concepts
Technology
Public health
Banks and banking
Postcolonialism
Computers and computing
Colonialism
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
Places
Hong Kong
Taiwan
Singapore
Japan
China
South Korea
Institutions
Instagram (firm)
Facebook (firm)
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