Jonathan Hearn

Salvage ethnography in the financial sector

The path to economic crisis in Scotland

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9780719087998
• ISBN-10: 0719087996
• Artikelnr.: 47871010

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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