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Talking like an institutional investor: On the gentle voice of financial giants
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Social Anthropology.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0184-6836
2017 (English)In: Power, policy and profit: Corporate engagements in politics and government / [ed] Christina Garsten; Adrienne Sörbom, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017, p. 134-151Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

By an analysis of the talk of institutional investors Anette Nyqvist describes and discusses some of the ways in which organizations having the primary goal of ‘making money’ increasingly also embark on projects of ‘doing good’. Empirically, Nyqvist focuses institutional investors, such as mutual funds, insurance companies and pension funds. These are large shareholder organizations commissioned to manage other people’s money which in later decades have emerged as influential front figures of the responsible investment industry, claiming to make money and make a difference and positioning themselves as the ‘active’ and ‘responsible’ do-gooders of finance. The chapter shows how institutional investors, seen as normative intermediary organizations, use ‘voice’, ‘dialogue’ and ‘small talk’ with the intent to (1) define and position themselves as a particular type of financial market actor, (2) foster and try to change companies that they own shares in and (3) set new standards for the investment industry.

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Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017. p. 134-151
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Social Anthropology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-149687DOI: 10.4337/9781784711214.00013ISBN: 9781784711207 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-149687DiVA, id: diva2:1163867
Available from: 2017-12-08 Created: 2017-12-08 Last updated: 2023-03-10Bibliographically approved

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