Managed by the Markets: How Finance Re-Shaped America

By Gerald F. Davis. 2009

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Why ‘financialisation’ hasn’t depressed US productive investment (2015, background): “The rapid growth of dividend payments and stock repurchases in recent decades has drawn considerable attention amongst sociologists and economists writing within the shareholder value tradition (Lazonick and O’Sullivan, 2000; Dobbin and Zorn, 2005; Fligstein, 2005; Davis, 2009).”
Housing and Employment Insecurity among the Working Poor (2016, background): “The precariousness of employment is due in part to the “financialization of the economy” (Davis 2009; Jung 2015), which has led to permanent terminations becoming “a basic component of employers’ restructuring strategies” (Kalleberg 2008:5).”
Chapter 2 Resource dependence theory: Past and future (2010, background): “As a result, there has been an explosion of outsourcing, which is not limited to business: families with a fast internet connection and Skype find that they can use offshore vendors to file their taxes, edit their wedding videos, plan their family reunions, and tutor their children (Davis, 2009).”
The Misapplication of Mr. Michael Jensen: How Agency Theory Brought Down the Economy and Why it Might Again (2010, neutral): “In this period as well the focus of the American economy was moving toward finance, and finance workers gained both prestige and income (Lounsbury, 2002; Davis, 2009).”
Revenge of the Managers (2012, background): “These findings offer a corrective to Davis (2009) insofar as the rise of financial capitalism has actually reinforced key dynamics of the managerialist order, enlarging the managerial class and heightening its members’ ability to capture organizational resources.”
Financialization and U.S. Income Inequality, 1970–20081 (2011, neutral): “…the institutional shift over the past three decades from managerialism to shareholder value conceptions of the firm ðFligstein and Shin 2003, 2007; Davis 2009; Goldstein 2012Þ. Finally, we expand the analysis of income inequality to illustrate that a multiactor framework of capitalists, top…”
Financialisation and Income Inequality in OECD Nations:1995-2007 (2012, positive): “financial corporations, even quintessential industrial firms, also began to set up and manage banking operations, as the examples of GE Capital and Sears Financial most famously represent (Krippner, 2011). As financial activities began to constitute a larger part of non-financial corporate activity,”
Demolishing the Present to Sell off the Future? The Emergence of ‘Financialized Municipal Entrepreneurialism’ in London (2018, background): “City governments, as Ward (2016: 3) reminds us, are “more than the puppets of financial capital” and are not simply, as Gerald Davis (2009) has it, “managed by the markets”.”
Comparative and International Corporate Governance (2010, background): “Institutional investors have become significant owners since the 1990s (G.F. Davis, 2009; Useem, 1996), initially in the Anglo-American markets and now across almost all corporate governance systems.”
Corporations and economic inequality around the world: The paradox of hierarchy☆ (2010, background): “Nine of the 12 largest domestic corporate employers are in retail, with Wal-Mart at the top of the list; none were manufacturers (Davis, 2009b).”
Accounting, Organizing, and Economizing: Connecting Accounting Research and Organization Theory (2013, neutral): “…within accounting is itself an epiphenomenon of the rise of financial economics as a body of practice and theory with a profoundly constitutive role for markets and organizations (Davis, 2009; Espeland & Hirsch, 1990; Mackenzie & Millo, 2003; Vollmer, Mennicken, & Preda, 2009; Whitley, 1986).”