Many thanks for your help and suggestions. Below is a summary of the
correspondance received on the subject. Hope it is of interest.
Cheers / Saludos / Hej dĺ,
Bernardo
Some references (I have collected a couple of others as part of the paper
and glad to share if they are of interest, although they primarily look at
mechanisation in banking at the turn of the century or the interwar period):
James McKenney and Amy W. Fisher. "The Development of the ERMA Banking
System: Lessons from History". IEEE Annals of History of Computing, 15:1
(1993): 44-57 and "Manufacturing the ERMA Banking System: Lessons from
History". IEEE Annals of History of Computing, 15:4 (1993):7-26
Alan Booth, 'British retail banks, 1955-70s: a case of Americanisation', in
M. Kipping and N. Tiratsoo (eds.), Americanisation in 20th Century Europe:
Business, Culture, Politics (CRHEN-O, Lille, 2002). ISBN 2-905637-44-7 (for
a critique see http://www.eh.net/bookreviews/library/0416.shtml)
Dave Mason's doctoral dissertation "From Building and Loans to Bail-Outs:
A History of the American Savings and Loan Industry" was completed in
June 2001 at The Ohio State University. It is currently under contract with
Cambridge University Press. He has collected reports in specialised
journals.
Some people working in the area:
Richard Coopey at
http://www.aber.ac.uk/history/richard_coopey.htm
Alan Booth at Exeter,
http://www.ex.ac.uk/shipss/history/staff/booth/
Lars Haide and Matthias Kipling, are managing an European research network
on Information Systems
and Technology in Organisations and Society:
http://www.histech.nl/Tensions/Default.htm
And finally, interesting web resources:
alt.folklore.computers (see review in
http://www.bauser.com/news.groups.reviews/alt.folklore.computers/1.html)
My own (New Economic Papers) in Economic History,
http://lists.repec.org/pipermail/nep-his/
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