TY - BOOK ID - 78501257 TI - Birth of the chaordic age AU - Hock, Dee AU - VISA International. PY - 1999 SN - 0585299226 9780585299228 1583764860 9781583764862 PB - San Francisco, CA : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, DB - UniCat KW - Businessmen KW - Bank credit cards KW - Charge account bank plans KW - Credit cards KW - History KW - Hock, Dee, KW - VISA International KW - History. KW - E-books KW - Finance KW - Business & Economics KW - Banking KW - Business men KW - Businesspeople UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78501257 AB - "The worldwide success of VISA International, Dee Hock asserts, is due to its chaordic structure: it is owned by 22,000 member banks, which both compete with each other for 750 million customers and must cooperate by honoring one another's $1.25 trillion in transactions annually across borders and currencies. Birth of the Chaordic Age is the story of how that structure came into being."--Jacket. ER -