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.
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978-1-138-20403-4 (9781138204034)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Valerie 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.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Financiers at work, financialisation on the march
Valerie 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
Valerie 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 Laferte 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 elite
Sabine Montagne
Chapter 8 The second financialisation in France, or how executives and directors with unchanged financial careers promoted a new conception of control
Pierre Francois and Claire Lemercier
Chapter 9 Financialisation through the trajectories of business school graduates in France
Valerie Boussard and Simon Paye
Chapter 10 "I didn't leave financial journalism, I left classical journalism": Careers and commitments of French financial journalists at the time of financialisation
Antoine Machut
PART IV
Internal boundaries: Diversity, segmentation, stratification within financial occupations
Introduction: Is sociology of finance a general sociology?
Olivier Godechot
Chapter 11 Early careers in portfolio and wealth management: The roles of class, race and gender in occupational segmentations
Stephanie Mignot-Gerard, Constance Perrin-Joly, Francois Sarfati and Nadege Vezinat
Chapter 12 Managing fortunes and privacy: Professional rhetoric and boundaries within wealth management
Camille Herlin-Giret
Chapter 13 The duality of the LBO field
Fabien Foureault
References
Index
