ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change

Theme 1 Related Working Papers

Working Paper No.5
General Electric: The Conditions of Success
Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver, Karel Williams
September 2005
ISBN 1-905405-04-9
Paper No.5 ( , 1,016kb)

Working Paper No.9
The democratisation of finance? Promises, outcomes and conditions
Ismail Erturk, Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver & Karel Williams
November 2005
ISBN 1-905405-08-1
Paper No.9 ( , 242kb)

Working Paper No.11
The reinvention of prudence: household savings, financialisation and forms of capitalism
Ismail Ertürk, Julie Froud, Stefano Solari, Karel Williams
November 2005
Paper No.11 ( , 611kb)

Working Paper No. 13
Re-Instating an Ethic of Office? Office, ethos and persona in public management
Paul du Gay
January 2006
Paper No.13 (<PDF Document>, 524kb)

Working Paper No. 15
Mapping the network society: Network dynamics in the transition to democracy in Indonesia
Yanuar Nugroho and Gindo Tampubolon
March 2006
Paper No.15 (<PDF Document>, 1244kb)

Working Paper No. 22
Stressed by choice: a business model analysis of the BBC
Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver, Richard Phillips,
Karel Williams
September 2006
Paper No.22 (<PDF Document>, 482kb)

Working Paper No. 23
Agency, the romance of management pay and an alternative explanation
Ismail Erturk, Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver and Karel Williams
October 2006
Paper No.23 (<PDF Document>, 387kb)

Working Paper No. 24
Speculating on geogrpahies finance
Michael Pryke
October 2006
Paper No.24 (paper no.24, 419kb

Working Paper No. 25
Working for themselves? Capital market intermediaries and present day capitalism
Peter Folkman, Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal and Karel Williams
November 2006
Paper No.25 (paper no.25, 419kb)

Working Paper No. 29
Missing Women’: Gender, ICTs and The Shaping Of The Global Economy
Hazel Gillard, Debra Howcroft, Natalie Mitev, Helen Richardson
January 2007
Paper No.29 (PDF, 337kb)

Working Paper No. 31
Private Equity and the Culture of Value Extraction
July Froud and Karel Williams
February 2007
Paper No.31 ( <PDF Document>, 346kb)

Working Paper No. 32
Prudentialism and the ‘Missionaries’ of Life Assurance
Liz Mcfall
April 2007
Paper No.32 ( <PDF Document>, 349kb)

Working Paper No.33
'Without Affection or Enthusiasm': Problems of Attachment and Involvement in 'Responsive' Public Management
Paul du Gay
May 2007
Paper No.33 (<PDF Document>, 337kb)

Working Paper No.35
Nation States and Networks of Flows: The Role of the State in Jordan’s ICT Enabled Development
Chris Westrup, Saheer Al-Jaghoub
September 2007
Paper No.35 (<PDF Document>, 511kb)

Working Paper No.38
Is the Stock Market a Disciplinary Institution? French Giant Firms and the Regime of Accumulation
Sukhdev Johal and Adam Leaver
October 2007
Paper No.38 (<PDF Document>, 401kb)

Working Paper No.41
Gender Matters in the Global Outsourcing of Service Work
Debra Howcroft & Helen Richardson
December 2007
Paper No.41(<PDF Document>, 374kb)

Working Paper No.42
Money’s eyes: The visual preparation of financial markets
Mike Pryke
December 2007
Paper No.42 (<PDF Document>, 385kb)

Working Paper No.43
Financialization and consumption: Aan alternative account of rising consumer debt levels in Anglo-America
Johnna Montgomerie
December 2007
Paper No.43 (<PDF Document>, 710kb)

Working Paper No.44
Taking its toll: The private financing of roads in Spain
Basilio Acerete, Jean Shaoul  and Anne Stafford
December 2007
Paper No.44 (<PDF Document>, 326kb)

Working Paper No.46
Everything for Sale: How Non-executive Directors Make a Difference
Julie Froud , Adam Leaver, Gindo Tampubolon and Karel Williams
January 2008
Paper No.46 (<PDF Document>, 485kb)

Working Paper No.48
Corporate governance and impossibilism
Ismail Erturk, Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal. Adam Leaver, David Shammai, Karel Williams
January 2008
Paper No.48 (<PDF Document>, 472kb)

Working Paper No.53
(Re)Politicizing inflation policy: A global political economy perspective
Johnna Montgomerie
August 2008
Paper No.53 (<PDF Document>, 548kb)

Working Paper No.56
Rethinking top management pay: From pay for performance to pay as fee
Julie Froud, Adam Leaver, Siobhan McAndrew, David Shammai, Karel Williams
August 2008
Paper No.56 (<PDF Document>, 382kb)

Working Paper No.57
Losing the battles but winning the war: The case of UK Private Equity Industry and mediated scandal of summer 2007
Johnna Montgomerie, Adam Leaver and Adriana Nilsson
August 2008
Paper No.57 (<PDF Document>, 459kb)

Working Paper No.58
Spectre of the Subprime Borrower — beyond a credit score perspective
Johnna Montgomerie
October 2008
Paper No.58 (<PDF Document>, 474kb)
Appendix Paper No.58 (<PDF Document>, 95kb)

Working Paper No.59
Financial Innovation: Frame, Conjuncture and Bricolage
Ewald Engelen, Ismail Erturk, Julie Froud, Adam Leaver and Karel Williams
November 2008
Paper No.59 (<PDF Document>, 485kb)

Working Paper No.61
Ownership Matters: Private Equity and the Political Division of Ownership
Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver and Karel Williams
December 2008
Paper No.61 (<PDF Document>, 478kb)