The sociology of financial markets / edited by Karin Knorr Cetina and Alex Preda, eds.
| Other author | Knorr-Cetina, K. (Karin) |
| Other author | Preda, Alex, 1960- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. |
| Description | xii, 319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction / Karin Knorr Cetina, Alex Preda -- SECTION I. INSIDE FINANCIAL MARKETS -- The embeddedness of electronic markets: the case of global capital markets / Saskia Sassen -- How are global markets global? The architecture of a flow world / Karin Knorr Cetina -- How a superportfolio emerges: long-term capital management and the sociology of arbitrage / Donald MacKenzie -- How to recognize opportunities: heterarchical search in a trading room / Daniel Beunza, David Stark -- Emotions on the trading floor: social and symbolic expressions / Jean-Pierre Hassoun -- Women in financial services: fiction and more fiction / Barbara Czarniawska -- SECTION II. THE AGE OF THE INVESTOR -- The investor as a cultural figure of global capitalism / Alex Preda -- The values and beliefs of European investors / Werner De Bondt -- Conflicts of interests in the US brokerage industry / Richard Swedberg -- SECTION III. FINANCE AND GOVERNANCE -- Interpretive politics at the Federal Reserve / Mitchel Y. Abolafia -- The return of bureaucracy: managing dispersed knowledge in global finance / Gordon L. Clark, Nigel Thrift -- Enterprise risk management and the organization of uncertainty in financial institutions / Michael Power -- Managing investors: how financial markets reshaped the American firm / Dirk Zorn ... [et al.] -- Nothing but net? Networks and status in corporate governance / Gerald Davis, Gregory Robbins. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2004276204 |
| ISBN | 0199275599 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | HM548 .S644 2005 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |