Bullish on uncertainty : how organizational cultures transform participants

Resource Information

The work Bullish on uncertainty : how organizational cultures transform participants represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in European University Institute. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Bullish on uncertainty : how organizational cultures transform participants

Title remainder

how organizational cultures transform participants

Statement of responsibility

Alexandra Michel, Stanton Wortham

Creator

• Michel, Alexandra, 1967-

Contributor

• Wortham, Stanton Emerson Fisher, 1963-

Author

• Wortham, Stanton Emerson Fisher, 1963-

Subject

• Bank management
• Corporate culture
• Investment banking

Language

eng

Summary

Bullish on Uncertainty provides rare insight into the secretive world of Wall Street high finance, which has shaped influential business, governmental, and cultural leaders and keeps supplying new business practices to other organizations in dynamic and complex environments. The book studies how two highly successful Wall Street investment banks managed the uncertainty of their high-velocity environment through different work practices. One bank chose the familiar route of decreasing bankers' uncertainty. The other bank used the novel and effective practice of increasing bankers' uncertainty to make them more alert to new situations and more likely to draw on the bank's entire range of resources. Through vivid accounts of newcomers during their first two years, the book traces how the two banks' initially similar participants were transformed into fundamentally different kinds of persons by the different kinds of work practices in which they participated.--

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

UkCbUP

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks