Preface by the Board of Editors.

This paper tells of the contents of a forthcoming volume, which offers a new and original approach to the study of technological change in retail finance. Most business history studies of businesses for the last 50 years note the emergence of computers and computer applications, but they do not...

German abstract: Industrie 4.0 - das neue Paradigma der industriellen Produktion, bei dem digitale Prozesse, Echtzeitdaten und cyber-physische Produktionssysteme zur Steigerung von Qualität und Effizienz eingesetzt werden - verändert die Art und Weise, wie wir über die Herstellung von Gütern...

This paper tells of the contents of a forthcoming volume, which offers a new and original approach to the study of technological change in retail finance. Most business history studies of businesses for the last 50 years note the emergence of computers and computer applications, but they do not...