Co-evolution of Information-Processing Technology and Use
Interaction between the Life Insurance and Tabulating Industries
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9628700 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joanne Yates (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-51 |
| Publication date | 1993-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Business History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-6805 • E-ISSN: 2044-768X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3117467 |
| OpenAlex | W1593783141 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 20 |
Punched-card tabulating equipment, an important commercial predecessor of the computer, was used for processing large amounts of data in many business firms during die first half of the twentieth century. Life insurance was an information-intensive business dependent on firms' abilities to manage large quantities of data. This article examines both the role that tabulating machinery played in shaping insurance firms' business processes and the simultaneous role that Ufe insurance as a user industry played in shaping the development of tabulating technology between 1890 and 1950. The ongoing interaction between the Ufe insurance and tabulating industries shaped both in significant ways, setting the stage for continued interaction between the two industries during the transition to computers beginning at mid-century
Actuarial science · Business · Industrial organization · Information processing · Insurance industry · Life insurance · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History of Computing Technologies · History of Science and Medicine
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Organisation im soziotechnischen Gemenge
Knowledge and Competitive Advantage
Thinking about technology
L’étude des savoirs au-delà du contrôle disciplinaire
Mutual Shaping of Users and Technologies in a National Virtual Community
B C, Before Computers
How Lincs Were Made
Quantitative methods in business history
Understanding the Development of Online Newspapers
Books to Think with
Factors Influencing the Co-Evolution of Computer-Mediated Collaborative Practices and Systems
The Mutual Shaping of Technology and Society in Videotex Newspapers
Demographic Knowledge and Nation‐Building
Inventing Information Systems
IBM's Early Adaptation to Cold War Markets
The Changing Genderization of Bookkeeping in the United States, 1870–1930
The co-evolution of third stream activities in UK higher education
A Pioneering Use of Early Computers in Weather and Mortality Research
"The History of "Impairment
The control revolution
Before the Computer
Networks of Power
Morals and Markets. the Development of Life Insurance in the United States
Control through Communication
Scale and Scope
The Social construction of technological systems
On the Diversity and Co-Evolution of Technological Multiples
Life Insurance and Investment Banking at the Time of the Armstrong Investigation of 1905-1906
Herman Hollerith
High-Technology Calculation in the Early 20th Century
The Development of Punch Card Tabulation in the Bureau of the Census, 1890-1940
The Metropolitan Life, A Study in Business Growth
| Citations per year | 0.7 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1996 - 2024 (29) |
| Highly cited | No |