Regulation and Deregulation in European Financial Services

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   • Glenn Morgan, David Knights

   Pages 1-13

3. The Global Context of Financial Services: National Systems and the International Political Economy

   • Glenn Morgan

   Pages 14-41

4. Local Autonomy in Danish Banking: Historical Roots — Persistence and Change

   • James Høpner

   Pages 42-65

5. The French Deposit Bank: Managerial Professions Between Rationalization and Trust

   • David Courpasson

   Pages 66-85

6. The End of the German Model? Developmental Tendencies in the German Banking Industry

   • Herbert Oberbeck, Nestor D’Alessio

   Pages 86-104

7. Bank Finance for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in Germany and France

   • Sigrid Quack, Swen Hildebrandt

   Pages 105-132

8. The Problematic Transformation of the Banking Sector in France: The Case of Consumer Credit

   • Danielle Salomon

   Pages 133-153

9. National Management Styles: A Comparative Study of the Strategy of Bancassurance in Britain and France

   • Andrew Sturdy, Glenn Morgan, Jean-Pierre Daniel

   Pages 154-177

10. The Swedish Banking Crisis: The Invisible Hand Shaking the Visible Hand

    • Lars Engwall

    Pages 178-200

11. Changing Managerial Competitive Practices in the Context of Growth and Decline in the Finnish Banking Sector

    • Risto Tainio, Kari Lilja, Timo Santalainen

    Pages 201-215

12. Governmentality and Financial Services: Welfare Crises and the Financially Self-Disciplined Subject

    • David Knights

    Pages 216-235

13. Back Matter

    Pages 237-247

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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.

• bank
• banking
• Banking Industry
• efficiency
• International Political Economy
• management
• organization

• Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK

  Glenn Morgan

• Manchester School of Management, UMIST, UK

  David Knights

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