Professionals in Investment Banks - Sharing an Epistemic Practice or an Occupational Community?

Karin Winroth ()
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Karin Winroth: Gothenburg Research Institute, Postal: Gothenburg Research Institute, School of Economics and Commercial Law, Göteborg University, Box 600, SE 40530 Göteborg, Sweden

No 2003:1, GRI-rapport from University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg Research Institute GRI

Abstract: The circumstances in contemporary society have created new conditions for how the organising and legitimising of contemporary 'knowledge workers' develop. It seems like the today's practice and expertise of knowledge workers is hard to comprehend in studies merely based in the prevailing theory of professions. In this paper the epistemic practice of investment banks is analysed, showing how the knowledge of finance, divided between expert categories, becomes linked again – in practice.

Keywords: epistemic practice; knowledge workers; investment banks; the machinery of financial practice. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2003-08-13
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