Financial knowledge, documents, and the structures of financial activities

A  Preda

Financial knowledge, documents, and the structures of financial activities

A Preda

Accounting & Financial Management

University of Surrey

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Abstract

Starting from participant observation and interviews conducted in several European banks, the article examines how financial knowledge is constituted in the process of producing documents like research reports, analyses, and newsletters. The core argument is that documents act as organizational devices, with the help of which relationships are created, maintained, and managed across various contexts. In this perspective, the production of financial reports, analyses, and newsletters creates (1) knowledge-based networks of social relationships in which financial action is embedded and (2) stable temporal structures, thus ensuring the continuity of financial activities. On these grounds, the author argues here that knowledge-generating processes should be taken into account as an essential dimension of the structural embeddedness of financial action.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	207-239
Number of pages	33
Journal	JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY ETHNOGRAPHY
Volume	31
Issue number	2
Publication status	Published - Apr 2002

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Financial knowledge, documents, and the structures of financial activities

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