Financialization and Strategy: Narrative and Numbers

By J. Froud, S. Johal, A. Leaver, K. Williams. 2006

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Financializing space, spacing financialization (2011, methodology): “The CSA approach is associated in particular with Julie Froud, Karel Williams, and colleagues based (mainly) at the University of Manchester (Froud et al. 1998; 2000a; 2002; 2002a; 2000b; 2006; Williams 2001).”
Financialization of the Economy (2015, background): “Corporate executives no longer made decisions solely based on a classic product market strategy, but based in large part on the ability to craft good stories to investors and analysts (Froud et al 2006).”
Normalized Intensity: The New Labour Process of Middle Management (2008, background): “…aspect of large-scale corporate change in Britain is that, despite the tremendous hardship that restructuring brings, financial results have been modest, while pay for top management (possibly the only clear winners to emerge from major corporate change) has skyrocketed (Froud et al., 2000, 2005).”
Neoliberalisation from the Ground Up: Insurgent Capital, Regional Struggle, and the Assetisation of Land (2018, background): “The way in which this struggle played out in the financial accounts based on estimations as to future value demonstrated the way in which assetisation centres on narratives (Froud et al, 2006; Birch, 2017).”
How real estate became ‘just another asset class’: the financialization of the investment strategies of Dutch institutional investors (2017, background): “Consequently, attention shifts to financial techniques to increase the fictitious capital of assets such as debt generation to fund share buy-back programmes, leveraged takeovers and dividend payouts, or making financial assets leading within business models (Froud et al., 2006).”
Financial exclusion and the geography of bank and building society branch closure in Britain (2008, background): “Significantly, the process of financialisation is associated with uneven social outcomes as it works its way through the financial system and differentially connects individuals and households to wider financial processes (Froud et al. 2006).”
World cities under conditions of financialized globalization (2015, background): “Apart from assisting TNCs in optimizing and making more flexible their supply chains, APS firms played an important role in the codification and implementation of these metrics as well (Froud et al., 2000, 2006).”
The democratization of finance? Promises, outcomes and conditions (2007, background): “Froud et al. (2006) explored one aspect of this discrepancy in relations between corporations and the capital market in an era where managers now promise value for shareholders and then construct a narrative of purpose and achievement that covers their difficulty in generating appropriate financial…”
Enterprise Culture and Accountancy Firms: New Masters of The Universe (2008, background): “This has been accompanied by a variety of strategies to improve corporate earnings through financial engineering, dilution of wages and workers' pension rights (Froud et al., 2006; Mitchell and Sikka, 2006).”
What is prosumerism for? Exploring the normative dimensions of decentralised energy transitions (2020, background): “This speculative value privileges the intangibility of ‘the new’ and the excitement of ‘imagined futures’ over the material reality of production and consumption [118,124] meaning that new and unproven companies are suddenly worth billions on global stock markets [123,125,126].”