Table of Contents

Karin Knorr Cetina and Alex Preda: Introduction
Section I: Inside Financial Markets
1: Saskia Sassen: The Embeddedness of Electronic Markets: The Case of Global Capital Markets
2: Karin Knorr Cetina: How Are Global Markets Global? The Architecture of a Flow World
3: Donald MacKenzie: How a Super-Portfolio Emerges: Long Term Capital Management and the Sociology of Arbitrage
4: Daniel Beunza and David Stark: How to Recognize Opportunities: Heterarchical Search in a Trading Room
5: Jean-Pierre Hassoun: Emotions on the Trading Floor: Social and Symbolic Expressions
6: Barbara Czarniawska: Women in Financial Services: Fiction and More Fiction
Section II: The Age of the Investor
7: Alex Preda: The Investor as a Cultural Figure of Global Capitalism
8: Walter De Bondt: The Values and Beliefs of European Investors
9: Richard Swedberg: Conflicts of Interest in the US Brokerage Industry
Section III: Finance and Governance
10: Mitchel Y. Abolafia: Interpretive Politics at the Federal Reserve
11: Gordon Clark and Nigel Thrift: The Return of Bureaucracy: Managing Dispersed Knowledge in Global Finance
12: Michael Power: Enterprise Risk Management and the Organization of Uncertainty in Financial Institutions
13: Dirk Zorn, Frank Dobbin, Julian Dierkes, and Man-shan Kwok: Managing Investors: How Financial Markets Reshaped the American Firm
14: Gerald Davis and Gregory Robbins: Nothing But Net? Networks and Status in Corporate Governance