The discreet charm of the stock broker: the social embeddedness of financial markets <p> Use of technology gives rise to impersonal relations in financial markets. Personal interaction is replaced by the cold rationality of algorithms. While working in financial markets, employees aim at being...</p>

Purpose <p> The article aims to answer the question if particular values make for particular forms of trust. <p> Design/methodology/approach <p> In the present article, interviews and conversations the author has made with twenty-one employees in Swedish brokerage firms, merchant banks and mutual funds...</p></p></p>

Technology has contributed to what Max Weber termed the disenchantment of the world. Re-enchantment is a broad tendency than has hitherto been described. This overlooked movement within post-industrial business stretches into financial markets. Presently, we observe magic, morality and narrative...

From the 1980s and onwards, markets have been prime movers in an individualist, market-liberal transformation, and now take part in the every-day life of the general public. Similar to economic development, also personal identity has become fuelled by consumption. Production and work turn more...

The tacit morality plays a vital part of a culture. A particular morality is caused by the fact that particular social forces are needed to keep financial markets together. The mentality of financial markets has causes in the particular working conditions. A particular set of values of actors is...

Les conditions de travail particulières et les forces sociales créent une mentalité sur les marchés financiers. L’avidité abstraite et le concept de la main invisible ont des rôles essentiels dans la moralité des marchés financiers. La digitisation des marchés contribue à...

The Swedish financial market has evolved from being small and insignificant to becoming highly developed, developing from the bottom to the elite among markets. One reason for why Swedish financial markets grew exponentially during the 1980s and 90s is the process of deregulation all over the...

This article informs the question of how a business sector interacts with perceived demands from the public. Swedish financial firms suffer from low public confidence. The Swedish public has become increasingly involved in the equities market. Brokerage houses have al-ways appeared as exclusive....

Technologie hat dazu beigetragen, was Max Weber die Entzauberung der Welt nannte. Angestellte riskieren ihrer Sinnerfahrung in der arbeit beraubt zu werden. momentan beobachten wir das Magie, Moral und Erzählungen in Unternehmungen Einzug halten. Wiederverzauberung ist eine verbreiteter aber...

Research about codes of corporate ethics has hitherto taken a hypothetical, correct meaning of codes for granted. The article problematises the dichotomous categories intrinsic and subjective meanings of codes. I address the question if professionals in finance accept codes of business. The...