Hearn Salvage ethnography in the financial sector

The path to economic crisis in Scotland
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-5261-0834-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 160 Seiten

Reihe: New Ethnographies

A historical ethnography of banking practices during the merger of Halifax and Bank of Scotland. Provides insight into the 2008 economic crisis through review of the role of national identities, different styles and ethos of business, tension and unrest prevalent during the merger, and implications for future development within the organisation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hearn, Jonathan

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen: Allgemeines
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Bankwirtschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series editor's foreword
1. Introduction: ethnography, history and the vagaries of research
2. History: from Bank of Scotland’s origins to HBOS and crisis
3. Theory: explaining financial crisis and conceptualising capitalism
4. Culture: nations, banks and the organisation of power and social life
5. Change: discourses of agency and progress in organisational change
6. Identity: struggles with personhood, nationhood and professional virtue
7. Comparison: doing ethnography and thinking comparatively
8. Conclusion
Epilogue
References

Über Autor(innen)

Jonathan Hearn is Professor of Political and Historical Sociology at the University of Edinburgh