This paper explores the ways in which sell-side financial analysts seek to position themselves advantageously within the wider field of investment advice in spite of widespread skepticism over the value that their forecasts and recommendations add to investment decisions. The field of investment...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to test the performativity of intellectual capital (IC) from the perspective of sell-side analysts, a type of actor who consumes and creates IC information and in whose practice IC information plays a significant role. Design/methodology/approach: The...

This study seeks to advance our understanding of how analysts' decision contexts influence the motivational, attitudinal and relational aspects of their decision-making rationality. Based on in-depth interviews with analysts, and using the lens of the bounded rationality theory, we illustrate...

Purpose – This study tests the conjectured performativity of Intellectual Capital (IC) from the perspective of sell-side analysts, a type of actors who consumes and creates IC information and in whose practice IC information plays a significant role.Design/methodology/approach – The...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the nature of the work that financial analysts actually do in the context of the market for information and to further open up research in this area to qualitative and sociological inquiry. Design/Methodology/Approach: A field study with 49...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the nature of the work that financial analysts actually do in the context of the market for information and to further open up research in this area to qualitative and sociological inquiry. Design/methodology/approach – A field study...