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Salvage Ethnography in the Financial Sector: The Path to Economic Crisis in Scotland
Jonathan Hearn
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Hardback. Series: New Ethnographies. Num Pages: 200 pages, 2 charts, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; JHMC; KFF; KFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
This book is based on ethnographic research from 2001-2, during Bank of Scotland's first year of merger with Halifax to form HBOS. The research is revisited from the present perspective in the wake of the global banking and financial crisis that undermined HBOS in 2008. This historical perspective on the ethnographic data is used to explore: people's responses to the pressures of heightened competition and organisational change; mutual and sometimes antagonistic perceptions of Scottish and English identities across the two merged banks; conflicting evaluations of national and organisational cultures; and the challenges of integrating ethnographic and historical perspectives in a ... Read more
This book is based on ethnographic research from 2001-2, during Bank of Scotland's first year of merger with Halifax to form HBOS. The research is revisited from the present perspective in the wake of the global banking and financial crisis that undermined HBOS in 2008. This historical perspective on the ethnographic data is used to explore: people's responses to the pressures of heightened competition and organisational change; mutual and sometimes antagonistic perceptions of Scottish and English identities across the two merged banks; conflicting evaluations of national and organisational cultures; and the challenges of integrating ethnographic and historical perspectives in a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
New Ethnographies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719087998
SKU
V9780719087998
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About Jonathan Hearn
Jonathan Hearn is Professor of Political and Historical Sociology at the University of Edinburgh -- .
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