Introduction / Karin Knorr Cetina, Alex Preda
SECTION I. INSIDE FINANCIAL MARKETS
The embeddedness of electronic markets: the case of global capital markets / Saskia Sassen
How are global markets global? The architecture of a flow world / Karin Knorr Cetina
How a superportfolio emerges: long-term capital management and the sociology of arbitrage / Donald MacKenzie
How to recognize opportunities: heterarchical search in a trading room / Daniel Beunza, David Stark
Emotions on the trading floor: social and symbolic expressions / Jean-Pierre Hassoun
Women in financial services: fiction and more fiction / Barbara Czarniawska
SECTION II. THE AGE OF THE INVESTOR
The investor as a cultural figure of global capitalism / Alex Preda
The values and beliefs of European investors / Werner De Bondt
Conflicts of interests in the US brokerage industry / Richard Swedberg
SECTION III. FINANCE AND GOVERNANCE
Interpretive politics at the Federal Reserve / Mitchel Y. Abolafia
The return of bureaucracy: managing dispersed knowledge in global finance / Gordon L. Clark, Nigel Thrift
Enterprise risk management and the organization of uncertainty in financial institutions / Michael Power
Managing investors: how financial markets reshaped the American firm / Dirk Zorn ... [et al.]
Nothing but net? Networks and status in corporate governance / Gerald Davis, Gregory Robbins.