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Title The return of trust? : institutions and the public after the Icelandic financial crisis / edited by Throstur Olaf Sigurjonsson, David L. Schwarzkopf, Murray Bryant
Edition First edition
Published Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 276 pages) : illustrations
Contents Restoring confidence in the aftermath of Iceland's financial crisis / Gylfi Zoega -- Discursive control using emotion and economics during a financial crisis / David L. Schwarzkopf and Throstur Olaf Sigurjonsson -- Public trust in institutions in pre- and post-crisis Iceland (I): take the lift down, but use the stairs up / Guðrún Johnsen and Sigurbjörg Sigurgeirsdóttir -- Trust: some questions from a layperson / Einar Már Guðmundsson -- 'Not just crying about the money': Iceland and globalisation during boom and crisis / Kristín Loftsdóttir and Már Wolfgang Mixa -- Restoring trust in Iceland: Iceland's IMF programme / Friðrik Már Baldursson and Richard Portes -- A question of trust: the story of ­Reykjavík energy / Guðrun Erla Jónsdóttir -- Public trust in institutions in pre- and post-crisis Iceland (II): institutionalised mistrust / Sigurbjörg Sigurgeirsdóttir and Guðrún Johnsen -- Have Icelanders learned their lesson? The investigation of the Icelandic collapse and its aftermath / Vilhjálmur Árnason -- Trust and financial services: the impact of increasing digitalisation and the financial crisis / Andreas Oehler and Stefan Wendt -- Post-crisis regulation and supervision of Icelandic banks / Jon Thor Sturluson -- Restoring trust through improved corporate governance and adherence to gender quotas / Audur Arna Arnardottir and Throstur Olaf Sigurjonsson -- Governance mechanisms post-crisis / Murray Bryant, Throstur Olaf Sigurjonsson and Már Wolfgang Mixa
Summary Trust is the fundamental facilitator between actors in society, yet the past decade has seen the public openly question through demonstrations and elections whether business and political institutions deserve the trust society has placed in them--or whether the common person has been abandoned in favour of organisations and systems that are 'too big to fail'. The tenth anniversary of the crisis that shook financial markets in the early years of this century provides a chance to reflect on institutions' efforts to regain the trust lost in that debacle. It is particularly instructive to examine the steps that financial and governmental institutions have taken in one of the hardest-hit economies, Iceland. Those who witnessed the crisis and its aftermath know the wrenching effects it had on society, underscored by scepticism toward political and economic institutions. As the crisis spread almost worldwide, so too did the public's disenchantment. Since Iceland was one of the first societies affected, it has had the most time to work on and chart its recovery. This collection addresses the broad theme of how institutions in the small, close-knit Icelandic society have gone about trying to recapture other institutions' and the public's trust. Insights from these studies expand our understanding of how institutions try to rebuild their relationships with communities in the face of political and economic change in fractured Western societies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Trust -- Economic aspects
Trust -- Social aspects
Trust -- Economic aspects -- Iceland
Trust -- Social aspects -- Iceland
Finance.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Business Ethics.
Trust -- Social aspects
Iceland
Form Electronic book
Author Sigurjonsson, Throstur Olaf, editor
Schwarzkopf, David L., editor
Bryant, Murray, editor
ISBN 9781787433472
1787433471
9781787439528
1787439526
9781787541023
1787541029
Other Titles Institutions and the public after the Icelandic financial crisis