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View article: Unstable platforms: Uber’s business model and the challenge of organisational legitimacy
Unstable platforms: Uber’s business model and the challenge of organisational legitimacy Open
Lauded as the poster child of the sharing economy, the success of Uber’s business model was once viewed as inexorable. However, a disastrous Initial Public Offering and a series of legal rulings since have led some to question whether it h…
View article: A ‘Distributional Apparatus’ for real estate: Fair value accounting and the assetization of UK property
A ‘Distributional Apparatus’ for real estate: Fair value accounting and the assetization of UK property Open
Research on housing financialization argues that property assets are important stores of value that collateralise global systems of financial accumulation. Yet remarkably little is known about how those assets are constructed, valued and g…
View article: When the Abu Dhabi United Group Came to Town: Constructing an Organisational Fix for State Capitalism through the Manchester Life Partnership
When the Abu Dhabi United Group Came to Town: Constructing an Organisational Fix for State Capitalism through the Manchester Life Partnership Open
For many cities, the entry of financial actors into housing opens new geopolitical relations with overseas entities, including state‐backed investors such as sovereign wealth funds. These transformations raise the question of the extent to…
View article: The changing spatial arrangements of global finance: Financial, social and legal infrastructures
The changing spatial arrangements of global finance: Financial, social and legal infrastructures Open
The spatial arrangements of global finance have changed significantly over the last 30 years, entangling new actors, relations and sites. Infrastructures have developed to stabilize change and complexity. The collection advocates for a bro…
View article: From homes to assets: Transcalar territorial networks and the financialization of build to rent in Greater Manchester
From homes to assets: Transcalar territorial networks and the financialization of build to rent in Greater Manchester Open
Over the last decade, Greater Manchester's city-regional centre has become an important site for build to rent (BTR) housing development in the UK. The growth of this new tenure raises important empirical and conceptual questions about how…
View article: ‘Dams and flows’: boundary formation and dislocation in the financialised firm
‘Dams and flows’: boundary formation and dislocation in the financialised firm Open
Mainstream economic theories of the firm argue that the boundary between firm and market is determined by efficiency-enhancing logics which optimise coordination or bargaining outcomes. Drawing on social anthropological work, this paper cr…
View article: How financial products organize spatial networks: Analyzing collateralized debt obligations and collateralized loan obligations as “networked products”
How financial products organize spatial networks: Analyzing collateralized debt obligations and collateralized loan obligations as “networked products” Open
During the 2010s, collateralized loan obligations rapidly became a trillion-dollar industry, mirroring the growth profile and peak value of its cousin—collateralized debt obligations—in the 2000s. Yet, despite similarities in product form …
View article: Against hollow firms : repurposing the corporation for a more resilient economy
Against hollow firms : repurposing the corporation for a more resilient economy Open
The Covid-19 pandemic is revealing latent weaknesses at large, well-established companies who may now require state support. This report argues that those weaknesses pre-date the current pandemic and are a consequence of excesses in the no…
View article: Auditing with Accountability: Shrinking the Opportunity Spaces for Audit Failure
Auditing with Accountability: Shrinking the Opportunity Spaces for Audit Failure Open
In recent years a number of high-profile company failures have raised fundamental questions about the willingness and/or ability of auditors to exercise the professional scepticism necessary for the production of robust audits.
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View article: Corporate governance for sustainability : Statement
Corporate governance for sustainability : Statement Open
The current model of corporate governance needs reform. There is mounting evidence that the practices of shareholder primacy drive company directors and executives to adopt the same short time horizon as financial markets. Pressure to meet…
View article: Finance as ‘bizarre bazaar’: Using documents as a source of ethnographic knowledge
Finance as ‘bizarre bazaar’: Using documents as a source of ethnographic knowledge Open
Markets and finance have long attracted ethnographic interest but the nature of their activity – opaque, secretive and increasingly placeless – precludes traditional ethnographic fieldwork. In this article, we propose documents as an alter…
View article: Pragmatic engagement in a low trust supply chain: Beef farmers’ perceptions of power, trust and agency
Pragmatic engagement in a low trust supply chain: Beef farmers’ perceptions of power, trust and agency Open
The academic discussion of power in supply chains has changed from a discussion of the use of coercive power to one which emphasizes the role of trust in embedding co-operation and disincentivizing opportunism. Whilst a number of empirical…