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Adam Leaver

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Current research interests:
I have 3 main areas of research interest:
1. The growing academic work on the 'cultural economy' and in particular its relation to TV broadcasting and other areas of the entertainment business.
2. Revisiting and updating older academic work on the social character of economic elites, by examining CEO pay in relation to the 'new' or 'entrepreneurial' rich. This in turn feeds back into my previous research on inequality, low-income households and the question of mobility.
3. Understanding the interaction between financialisation, strategy and governance, in particular the role of narrative and its affects on buy, hold, sell decisions in different industries.
Other related activities

Current co-ordinator of the International Working Group on Financialization (IWGF).
E-mail: adam.leaver@manchester.ac.uk

Publications

Research Briefings

Working Paper

Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver and Karel Williams (2012), 'Apple Business Model: Financialization across the Pacific', CRESC Working Paper 111.
Ismail Ertürk, Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, John Law, Adam Leaver, Michael Moran and Karel Williams (2012), 'Deep Stall? The euro zone crisis, banking reform and politics', CRESC Working Paper 110.
Andrew Bowman, Ismail Ertürk, Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, John Law, Adam Leaver, Mick Moran and Karel Williams (2012), 'The Finance and Point-Value-Complex', CRESC Working Paper 118.
Ismail Erturk, Julie Froud, Adam Leaver, Mick Moran, Karel Williams (2011), 'Haldane’s Gambit: Political Arithmetic and/or a New Metaphor', CRESC Working Paper 097.
Ismail Ertürk, Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver, Michael Moran and Karel Williams (2011), 'City State against National Settlement: UK Economic Policy and Politics after the Financial Crisis', CRESC Working Paper 101.
Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver, Michael Moran and Karel Williams (2011), 'Groundhog Day: elite power, democratic disconnects and the failure of financial reform in the UK', CRESC Working Paper 108.
Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, John Law, Adam Leaver and Karel Williams (2011), 'Rebalancing the Economy (Or Buyer's Remorse)', CRESC Working Paper 087.
Ewald Engelen, Ismail Erturk, Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver, Michael Moran and Karel Williams (2011), 'Misrule of Experts? The Financial Crisis as Elite Debacle', CRESC Working Paper 094.
Julie Froud, Adam Leaver, Karel Williams, Sukhdev Johal and John Buchanan (2009), 'Undisclosed and unsustainable: problems of the UK national business model', CRESC Working Paper 75.
Johnna Montgomerie, Adam Leaver and Adriana Nilsson (2008), 'Losing the battles but winning the war: the case of UK Private Equity Industry and mediated scandal of summer 2007', CRESC Working Paper 57.
Julie Froud, Adam Leaver, Siobhan McAndrew, David Shammai and Karel Williams (2008), 'Rethinking Top Management Pay: From Pay for Performance to Pay as Fee', CRESC Working Paper 56.
Julie Froud, Adam Leaver, Gindo Tampubolon and Karel Williams (2008), 'Everything for Sale: How Non-executive Directors Make a Difference', CRESC Working Paper 46.
Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver and Karel Williams (2008), 'Ownership Matters: Private equity and the political division of ownership', CRESC Working Paper 61.
Ewald Engelen, Ismail Erturk, Julie Froud, Adam Leaver and Karel Williams (2008), 'Financial Innovation:Frame, Conjuncture and Bricolage', CRESC Working Paper 59.
Ismail Erturk, Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver, David Shammai and Karel Williams (2008), 'Corporate governance and impossibilism', CRESC Working Paper 48.
Sukhdev Johal and Adam Leaver (2007), 'Is the stock market a disciplinary institution? French giant firms and the regime of accumulation', CRESC Working Paper 38.
Ismail Erturk, Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver and Karel Williams (2006), 'Agency, the romance of management pay and an alternative explanation', CRESC Working Paper 23.
Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver, Richard Phillips and Karel Williams (2006), 'Stressed by choice: a business model analysis of the BBC', CRESC Working Paper 22.
Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver and Karel Williams (2005), 'General Electric: the Conditions of Success', CRESC Working Paper 005.
Ismail Erturk, Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver and Karel Williams (2005), 'The democratisation of finance? Promises, outcomes and conditions', CRESC Working Paper 009.

Refereed Journal Papers

Book Chapters

Projects

Remaking capitalism

Financial Innovation and Financial Insecurity

Ongoing project 2009-12 beginning with a team written book in 2010 with (contributions by Howcroft, Montgomerie and Moran). This project analyses how pre 2007 financial innovation led to financial...