Financialization and Strategy: Narrative and Numbers

by Karel Williams, Adam Leaver, Julie Froud, et al.

Book Overview

Considering the recent impact of the capital market on corporate strategy, this text analyzes, through argument and supportive case studies, how pressures from the capital bull market of the 1990s and bear market of the early 2000s, have reshaped management action and calculation in large, publicly quoted US and UK corporations.

Beginning with the dissatisfaction with classical strategy and its limited engagement with the processes of financialization,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415334187
• ISBN13: 9780415334181
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"