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Financial institutions and social transformations : international studies of a sector

Title
Financial institutions and social transformations : international studies of a sector / edited by David Knights and Tony Tinker.
Publication
New York : St. Martin's Press, 1997.

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Additional Authors
  • Knights, David.
  • Tinker, Tony.
Description
viii, 222 pages; 23 cm
Summary
This book seeks to draw together a series of theoretical and empirical contributions from several countries including the US, Japan, the UK, and Germany. The chapters differ from a majority of writings on the financial sector in that they are not dominated by economic or finance issues but are concerned with social or sociological implications, conditions and consequence of current charges in financial services.
Subject
  • Financial institutions
  • Banks and banking
  • Financial services industry
  • Financial institutions > Social aspects
  • Banks and banking > Social aspects
  • Financial services industry > Social aspects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. An Industry in Transition: Regulation, Restructuring and Renewal / David Knights -- 2. The Dialectic of the Value Form: the Social Evolution of Capital Markets in the US / Tony Tinker -- 3. Suburban Subjects: Financial Services and the New Right / Christopher Grey -- 4. The Acrobat of Desire: Consumer Credit and its Linkages to Modern Consumerism / Michael Shaoul -- 5. Bringing the Consumer In: Sales Networks in Retail Banking in New Zealand / Terry Austrin -- 6. Financial Services in Transition: an Examination of Market and Regulatory Forces in Denmark and the UK / Jon Sundbo -- 7. Stability or Transformation of Employment Relations in German Banking / Michael Muller -- 8. Marketing the Soul: from the Ideology of Consumption to Consumer Subjectivity / David Knights and Andrew Sturdy -- 9. The Japanese Main Bank Relationship: Governance or Competitive Strategy? / Mark J. Scher.
ISBN
0312177151 (cloth)
LCCN
97028030
OCLC
ocm37246019
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries