Julie Froud
Research interests
Along with Adam Leaver, Karel Williams, Ismail Erturk and Sukhdev Johal (Royal Holloway), I am currently working in Theme 1 Cultural Economy.
In the first phase of CRESC the theme 1 work has included the following areas which will be taken forward in CRESC 2:
- Developing research on financialisation. The impacts of financialisation on corporations has been explored through a book Strategy and Financialisation: Narrative and Numbers, published by Routledge in January 2006 and containing three in-depth cases Glaxo, Ford and GE. We also published Financialization at Work: Key readings and Commentary in 2008 which brings together edited texts reflecting different approaches to financialisation, along with significant commentary.
- Work on elites. This stream of work includes private equity as an example of capital market intermediaries and on NEDs and their role in restructuring corporations. This interest has been take forward with a successful application to the ESRC for a seminar series Studyng Elites with Mick Moran (Manchester), Glenn Morgan (Warwick) and Yuval Millo (LSE) (http://www.cresc.ac.uk/events/StudyingElites.html ).
- Developing a concept of financial innovation. Along with Ewald Engelen (University of Manchester) we have been working on the financial innovation as bricolage within a conjunctural frame. See, for example, CRESC working paper no.57.
Recent publications
- Erturk, Froud, Johal, Leaver and Williams (Eds) (2008) Financialization at Work, Routledge.
- Erturk, Froud, Johal, Leaver and Williams (2008) ‘Corporate governance and impossibilism’, Journal of Cultural Economy, vol.1, no.2, pp.109-28.
- Folkman, Froud, Johal and Williams (2008) ‘Working for themselves. Capital market intermediaries and present day capitalism’, Business History, vol.49, no.4, pp.552-72.
- Froud and Williams (2007) ‘Private equity and the culture of value extraction’ New Political Economy, vol.12, no.3, pp.405-420.
- Erturk, Froud, Johal, Leaver and Williams (2007) ‘The democratisation of finance? Promises, outcomes and conditions’, Review of International Political Economy, vol.14, issue 4, pp.553-575
Contact Details
Division of Accounting and Finance
Manchester Business School
The University of Manchester
Mezzanine Floor, Crawford House
Booth Street East
Manchester M13 9PL
UK
tel: +44 (0)161 275 4018
email: julie.froud@manchester.ac.uk