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Author Beunza, Daniel, author.

Title Taking the floor : models, morals, and management in a Wall Street trading room / Daniel Beunza
Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 326 pages)
Contents Introduction -- First impressions -- Trading robots and social cues -- Animating the market -- Models and reflexivity -- Managers -- Performative spirals -- Norms -- Resonance -- The global financial crisis -- Scandal -- When all is said and done -- Conclusion
Summary Debates about financial reform have led to the recognition that a healthy financial system doesn't depend solely on how it is structured--organizational culture matters as well. Based on extensive research in a Wall Street derivatives trading room, Taking the Floor considers how the culture of financial organizations might change in order for them to remain healthy, even in times of crises. In particular, Daniel Beunza explores how the extensive use of financial models and trading technologies over the recent decades has exerted a far-ranging and troubling influence on Wall Street. How have models reshaped financial markets? How have models altered moral behavior in organizations?Beunza takes readers behind the scenes into a bank unit that, within its firm, is widely perceived to be "a class act" and he considers how this trading room unit might serve as a blueprint solution for the ills of Wall Street's unsustainable culture. Beunza demonstrates that the integration of traders across desks reduces the danger of blind spots created by models. Warning against the risk of moral disengagement posed by the use of models, he also contends that such disengagement could be avoided by instituting moral norms and social relations. Providing a unique perspective on a complex subject, Taking the Floor profiles what an effective, responsible trading room can and should look like
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 29, 2019)
Subject Investment banking -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States -- Case studies
Investment bankers -- United States -- Case studies
Corporate culture -- United States -- Case studies
Organizational behavior -- United States -- Case studies
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Finance.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
Corporate culture
Investment bankers
Organizational behavior
United States
Genre/Form Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780691185996
0691185999