Decision taking, confidence and risk management in banks from early modernity to the 20th century. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Korinna Schönhärl, editor.
• Editors: Schönhärl, Korinna
• Other Names: Wissenschaftszentrum Nordrhein-Westfalen. Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen, host institution.; Decision Taking, Confidence and Risk Management in Banks: 19th and 20th Century (Workshop)
• Contents: Chapter 1) Introduction; Korinna Schönhärl -- Part 1: Recruitment of Personnel and Partners -- Chapter 2) The House of Morgan: Private family bank in transition; Susie J Pak -- Chapter 3) Cooperative Governance in Banking: Consequences for decision-taking processes; Friederike Sattler -- Chapter 4) Top Careers as a Means of Risk Management in Organisations; Daniel Wylegala -- Part 2) Risk Management Techniques -- Chapter 5) Minimizing Risk: Financial intermediaries and bond issuing in London before the Great War; Anders l Mikkelsen -- Chapter 6) Financial Centres as Fields: Reflections on habitus and risk in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- Chapter 7) The "Reputation Approach" and the Justificatory Function of Economic Calculation: Some Critical Reflections on Monika Pohle Fraser's Analysis of Risk Management Techniques in the Nineteenth Century; Sebastian Knake -- Chapter 8) Investigating Attitudes to risk in British Banking: A case study of Barclays' branch banking system, c. 1900-80; Matthew Hollow -- Chapter 9) Between novelty and fashion -- Risk management and the adoption of computers in retail banking; Bernardo Bátiz-Lazo -- Part 3: Methodological Tools for Historians: Network-Theory, Principal-Agent-Relationship, Behavioural Finance and Social Capital -- Chapter 10) Social capital versus commercial profits: The pressure of networks on decision making in early modern banks; Nadia Matringe -- Chapter 11) Risk management, credit and the operation of merchants' networks in early modern banking; Daniel Velinov -- Chapter 12) The role of group psychology in behavioural finance: A research starting point for banking, economic and financial historians; Victor Ricciardi -- Chapter 13) Behavioural finance as a methodological approach for historians? A field report concerning the construction of the Canal of Corinth in nineteenth-century Greece; Korinna Schönhärl -- Chapter 14) Considering social capital and the future research of banking history; Morten Reitmayer.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (xix, 342 pages), 6 illustrations, 1 illustration in color
• Subjects: 332.09; Finance; Banks and banking -- History -- Congresses; Banks and banking -- Risk management -- History -- Congresses; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Finance; Banks and banking; Capital investments; Capital market; Finance; Risk management; Business & Economics -- Banks & Banking; Business & Economics -- Insurance -- Risk Assessment & Management; Business & Economics -- Investments & Securities; Banking; Management & management techniques; Investment & securities; Finance; Banks and banking; Risk management; Capital investments; Capital market; Business & Economics -- Economic History; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319420769; 3319420763
• Related ISBNs: 9783319420752; 3319420755
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
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