Scandinavian Working Papers in Business Administration

GRI-rapport,
University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg Research Institute GRI

No 2003:1: Professionals in Investment Banks - Sharing an Epistemic Practice or an Occupational Community?

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

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.

30 pages, August 13, 2003

Full text files

index.xsql?pubid=38592 PDF-file 

Download statistics

Questions (including download problems) about the papers in this series should be directed to Lise-Lotte Walter ()
Report other problems with accessing this service to Sune Karlsson ().

This page generated on 2024-02-05 17:10:06.