A Cost-Saving Machine: Computing at the German Allianz Insurance Company.
This article provides a close study of information processing at Allianz, a West German insurance company, in the two decades following World War II. It contributes an international perspective to the history of information by analyzing corporate information technology decisions outside the United S...
| Publicado en: | Information & Culture Vol. 52; no. 1; pp. 31 - 65 |
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University of Texas Press
2017
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