This article presents a narrative analysis approach to understanding the dynamics of legitimisation in financial markets and applies this to an emerging organized equity market, the Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE). I argue that financial markets as realms of meaning and practice are prone to be...

In this study, we discuss why and how narratives of market actors can be used as one of the means to study cognitive heuristics and biases in financial markets. Our approach comes from a position in human sciences that the narrative mode of knowing and explanation is the most salient mode of...

Istanbul's place in the global financial system has become regionally prominent as Turkey has opened up to a globalizing economy since the 1980s. The AKP government now wants to not only entrench Istanbul's status as an attractive emerging market but also make Istanbul a globally important...