Finance at Work

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-88967-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 433 g

Reihe: Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking

In the collective psyche, a financier is a capitalist. In managerial capitalism, the notion of the ‘manager’ emerged, and the role of the manager was distinct from the role of the ‘owner’. Financial capitalism is similarly underpinned by financiers who are not the holders of the financial assets they buy, sell, trade or advise upon.

Finance at Work explores the world of financiers, be they finance-oriented CEOs, CFOs, financial journalists, mergers and acquisitions’ advisors or wealth managers. Part I investigates the professional trajectories of members of corporate boards and financialisation as the dissemination of financial logic outside its primary ‘iron cage’; Part II responds by studying financiers at work within financial occupations or financial operations involving external actors; while Part III pursues the issue of financial boundaries by seeking out the way financial logic crosses these boundaries. Part IV takes back the hypothesis of differentiations within finance presented in Part I, and analyses the internal boundaries of asset management, wealth management and leveraged buyout (LBO) acquisitions.

This book is essential reading for researchers and academics within the field of finance who aim to understand the ‘spread of finance’ in contemporary societies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boussard, Valérie

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen: Allgemeines
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensfinanzen Betriebliches Rechnungswesen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Notes on Contributors

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Financiers at work, financialisation on the march

Valérie Boussard

PART I The boundaries of finance: Exclusionary process, social closure and inner regulation

Introduction: Interrogating financialization as an analytic

Karen Ho

Chapter 1 Let’s make the company a bunch of figures: Professional representations in mergers and acquisitions firms

Valérie Boussard and Marie-Anne Dujarier

Chapter 2 Matching the market: Calibration and the working practices of quants

Taylor Spears

Chapter 3 Buying it: Financialisation through socialisation

Natascha van der Zwan

Chapter 4 Financial logic and bankers’ institutional entrepreneurship: The politics of the "zombies" debate in bankruptcy proceedings at the Commercial Court of Paris (2000–2005)

Emmanuel Lazega, Lise Mounier and Sylvan Lemaire

PART II

Passing through boundaries: Financiers as intermediaries in conversion to financial logics

Introduction: Financialising economic activities

Donald MacKenzie

Chapter 5 The financialization of the private wealth of farmers: Is it the work of the banks?

Gilles Laferté and Abdoul Diallo

Chapter 6 Financial backlash: When local bankers face social protest

Quentin Ravelli

Chapter 7 The assetisation of South African farmland: The role of finance and brokers

Antoine Ducastel and Ward Anseeuw

PART III

Crossing boundaries: Individual careers as vehicles for financialisation

Introduction: The financialisation of finance: The transformation of the French financial eli

Über Autor(innen)

Valérie Boussard is Professor of Sociology and Head of the Department of Sociology at the Paris Nanterre University, France. Her works are focused on the managerialisation and financialisation of contemporary firms through the analysis of professional and occupational groups which take part in such dynamics.