Regulation and Deregulation in European Financial Services

During the 1980s, deregulation became adopted as a slogan and set of practices which by setting market forces free could increase the efficiency of market systems. This was particularly the case in the financial services where national systems which had been closed through government and industry collaboration were now opened up to more internal and international competition. This book examines the consequences of deregulation in retail financial services. It shows that organisation and actors sought to adapt to this process, often with unexpected results.

Inhalt
Regulation and Deregulation in European Financial Services; G.Morgan & D.Knights - The Global Context of Financial Services: National Systems and the International Political Economy; G.Morgan - Local Autonomy in Danish Banking: Historical Roots, Persistence and Change; J.Hopner - The French Deposit Bank: Managerial Professions Between Rationalisation and Trust; D.Courpasson - The End of the German Model?: Developmental Tendencies in the German Banking Industry; H.Oberbeck & N.D'Alessio - Bank Finance for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in Germany and France; S.Quack & S.Hildebrandt - The Problematic Transformation of the Banking Sector in France: The Case of Consumer Credit; D.Salomon - National Management Styles: A Comparative Study of the Strategy of Bancassurance in Britain and France; A.Sturdy, G.Morgan & J-P.Daniel - The Invisible Hand Shaking the Visible Hand; L.Engwall - Changing Managerial Competitive Practices in the Context of Growth and Decline in the Finnish Banking Sector; R.Tainio, K.Lilja & T.Santalainen - Governmentality and Financial Services: Welfare Crises and the Financially Self-Disciplined Subject; D.Knights