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This essay is the concluding chapter for The Worth of Goods: Valuation and Pricing in the Economy, edited by Patrik Aspers and Jens Beckert (Oxford University Press). I start with an insight of John Dewey's that the terms price, prize, and praise all share a common Latin root. To this triplicate...
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In this essay we explore the crucial role of diversity in the context of a financial organization. Trading rooms, like many organizations, face two major cognitive challenges. The first is the challenge of recognizing opportunities. The second cognitive challenge is that of recognizing error. As...
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In the competitive and ever changing new-media industry, web-design firms have emerged and survived in a highly uncertain environment by becoming relentlessly innovative. They have decentralized their management—i.e., involved every unit in the innovative process and explored new...
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Our task in this paper is to analyze the organization of trading in the era of quantitative finance. To do so, we conduct an ethnography of arbitrage, the trading strategy that best exemplifies finance in the wake of the quantitative revolution. In contrast to value and momentum investing, we...
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This study explores the elusive social dimension of quantitative finance. We conducted three years of observations in the derivatives trading room of a major investment bank. We found that traders use models to translate stock prices into estimates of what their rivals think. Traders use these...
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What is the organizational basis of responsiveness under conditions of crisis? In this essay we examine a trading room that was damaged in the September 11th attack on the World Trade Center. What did the crisis reveal about the social practices and the technological tools of trading? Drawing on...
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A 200 legnagyobb magyar vállalat és a 25 legnagyobb bank közötti tulajdonosi kapcsolatok elemzésének segítségével a rekombináns tulajdon fogalmát az egyes cégek szintjéről a vállalati hálózatok szintjére terjesztjük ki. Legfontosabb állításunk, hogy a gazdasági...
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A posztszocialista átmenettel foglalkozó munkák uralkodó irányzata aszerint vizsgálja a kelet-európai szervezeti formákat, hogy mennyiben felelnek meg a már létező kapitalista mintának, illetőleg hol térnek el ettől. A szerzők ezzel szemben arra mutatnak rá, hogy a gazdasági...
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A neoliberális felfogás hívei azt feltételezik, hogy a posztszocialista átalakulás során a piacok önépítő módon működnek. Az állampárti nézetek új képviselői viszont az államtól várják a piacgazdaság kiformálását. A szerzők szerint e dichotómia megha- ladható, mert...
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