‐wide financial activities, i.e. the finance function. These issues address the basic role of a central finance department; TQM …; and personnel skills needed for the future. The finance function in most organizations has been pulled in many directions … recently by downsizing, technology, ethical issues and, of course, TQM. The central finance office (CFO) needs to understand …

Any adequate analysis of the nature and role of the mathematical language in finance necessarily requires fundamental …, interpretive, radical humanist, and radical structuralist. It looks at the current state of mainstream academic finance and notes …

and controversies in mainstream academic finance. It identifies the context among paradigms and the structure within the … finance, in particular. It notes how any worldview can be positioned on a continuum formed by four basic paradigms … mainstream academic finance, despite their apparent diversity, are founded on and associated with the functionalist paradigm …

radical structuralist. It looks at the current state of mainstream academic finance and notes that it is founded on the … certain paradigmatic viewpoint. It concludes that there are opportunities for mainstream academic finance to benefit from …