Salvage Ethnography in the Scottish Financial Sector - Protecting the Brand

Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Hearn is Professor of Political and Historical Sociology at the University of Edinburgh Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Series editor's foreword1. Introduction: ethnography, history and the vagaries of research2. History: from Bank of Scotland's origins to HBOS and crisis3. Theory: explaining financial crisis and conceptualising capitalism4. Culture: nations, banks and the organisation of power and social life5. Change: discourses of agency and progress in organisational change6. Identity: struggles with personhood, nationhood and professional virtue7. Comparison: doing ethnography and thinking comparatively8. ConclusionEpilogueReferences

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Hearn, Hearn Jonathan
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2016
• EAN: 9780719087998
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-8799-8
• Series: New Ethnographies; New Ethnograpies Mup; New Ethnographies; New Ethnograpies Mup
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Banks & Banking, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Finance / General, Scotland, Banking, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, 21st Century, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Economic & financial crises & disasters, Operational research, Takeovers, mergers & buy-outs, Finance and the finance industry