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2011
- handle: 10670/1.o56rre
- halshs: halshs-00610860
- doi: 10.1093/icc/dtr020
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clearing and settlement technology back office financial markets investment banking information systems social studies of finance financial products complexity Z - Other Special Topics/Z.Z1 - Cultural Economics • Economic Sociology • Economic Anthropology/Z.Z1.Z13 - Economic Sociology • Economic Anthropology • Social and Economic Stratification M - Business Administration and Business Economics • Marketing • Accounting • Personnel Economics/M.M1 - Business Administration/M.M1.M15 - IT Management L - Industrial Organization/L.L2 - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior/L.L2.L22 - Firm Organization and Market Structure G - Financial Economics/G.G2 - Financial Institutions and Services/G.G2.G24 - Investment Banking • Venture Capital • Brokerage • Ratings and Ratings AgenciesSujets proches
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Fabian Muniesa et al., « Back-office intricacy: the description of financial objects in an investment bank », HAL-SHS : économie et finance, ID : 10.1093/icc/dtr020
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The complexity of contemporary finance translates into what we call the problem of "description": the problem of constructing robust, flexible, portable, and mutually compatible depictions of complex, multisided, and often ambiguous financial objects (products, trades, marketplaces). This problem is characteristically exacerbated in back-office operations within the financial services industry. We provide a case study in the form of a qualitative examination of back- and middle-office operations in an international investment bank. We analyze the manifold manifestations of the problem of description within this bank.