A shared boundary object: Financial innovation and engineering in Islamic financial institutions
Samir Alamad,
Nunung Nurul Hidayah and
Alan Lowe
The British Accounting Review, 2021, vol. 53, issue 3
Abstract:
This paper explores the way in which ethico-faith-based rules act as a boundary object in constraining the process of financial innovation and engineering (FIE) in Islamic Financial Institutions (IFIs). The paper examines how this faith-based approach is enacted in the FIE process amid different social worlds and groups that cooperate without consensus within IFIs. We contribute to studies of governance in faith-based organizations, by identifying the plasticity of faith-based rules that act as boundary objects in the governance of the FIE process. The plasticity of ethico-faith based rules allows coordination among local and global actors with intersecting faith-based values, logics, and interests. IFIs ensure that the products of FIE become an integral part of and as compatible as possible with the logics of global financial markets.
Keywords: Islamic financial institutions; Governing innovation; Financial engineering; Ethico-faith-based rules; Boundary object plasticity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.bar.2020.100958
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