Strategic responses to global challenges: The case of European banking, 1973–2000

Larson, Mitchell Jonathan; Schnyder, Gerhard; Westerhuis, Gerarda; Wilson, John F.

doi:10.1080/00076791.2011.546660

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“…This will help specify the conditions under which organizational sleep is beneficial and, crucially, the conditions under which it may be harmful to organizational knowledge, learning, and memory. Research studies Abrahamson & Fairchild, 1999;Kieser, 1997, Newell et al, 2001Williams, 2004Brown & Eisenhardt, 1997Klarner & Raisch, forthcoming;Larson et al, 2011;Mayrhofer, 1997;McKinley & Scherer, 2000;Probst & Raisch, 2005;Weick, 2000Farjoun & Starbuck, 2007Schoeneborn, 2008;Tett, 2009;Tucker & Edmondson, 2003 Table 2: Evaluation of the organizational insomnia metaphor based on the "optimality principles" by Cornelissen (2006a) Optimality principle Definition (Cornelissen, 2006a) Evaluation…”

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“…The authors arrive at the conclusion that, instead of aiming at maximal growth, organizations should strive to stabilize their structures and growth rates. In a similar vein, Larson, Schnyder, Westerhuis, and Wilson (2011) diagnose that various financial institutions suffer from some form of "structural restlessness" (p. 54) that is characterized by regular reorganizations and restructurings. By analyzing the frequency of reorganizations in three banks from 1973 to 2000, the authors show that the higher the structural restlessness of a bank, the lower its performance (Larson et al, 2011).…”

Section: Step 2: Recontextualizing the Target Domain-the Metaphor Of Organizational Insomniamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Brown & Eisenhardt, 1997;Klarner & Raisch, 2012;Larson, Schnyder, Westerhuis, & Wilson, 2011;Mayrhofer, 1997;McKinley & Scherer, 2000;Probst & Raisch, 2005;Weick, 2000Farjoun & Starbuck, 2007Schoeneborn, 2008;Tett, 2009;Tucker & Edmondson, 2003 …”

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Recontextualizing Anthropomorphic Metaphors in Organization Studies

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Blaschke

Kaufmann

2012

Journal of Management Inquiry

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In this article, the authors discuss critically the use of "anthropomorphic" metaphors in organization studies (e.g., organizational knowledge, learning, and memory). They argue that, although these metaphors are potentially powerful, because of frequent usage they are at risk of becoming taken for granted and contextually disconnected from their source domain, the human mind. To unleash the heuristic potential of such metaphors, it is necessary to take into account the inherent dynamics and bidirectionality of metaphorical language use. Therefore, the authors propose a methodology for the context-sensitive use of metaphors in organization studies. They illustrate this approach by developing the new metaphor of organizational insomnia, which is informed by recent neuroscientific research on human sleep and its disruptions. The insomnia metaphor provides an alternative way of explaining deficits in organizational knowledge, learning, and memory, which originate in a state of permanent restlessness.

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Section: Step 2: Recontextualizing the Target Domain-the Metaphor Of Organizational Insomniamentioning

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Recontextualizing Anthropomorphic Metaphors in Organization Studies

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Blaschke

Kaufmann

2012

Journal of Management Inquiry

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“…Nevertheless, European banks remained ambivalent about EU financial integration. Banking systems consolidated nationally on the retail side (Chick & Dow, 2012;Dymski, 2012;Leyshon & Thrift, 1992), while internationalizing in corporate segments such as wholesale banking and securities trading (Larson, Schnyder, Westerhuis, & Wilson, 2011;Leyshon & Thrift, 1992;Mügge, 2006). Corporate segments were globalizing rapidly and were regarded as crucial to the future of European banks (Begg, 1992;Llewellyn, 1992).…”

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European Union financial integration, a geography perspective

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2019

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During the last 30 years, the financial sectors of the different European Union member states have gradually coalesced toward operating in a single, integrated, European financial space. This paper analyses financial integration by chronicling the process from Jacques Delors' single market project until the recent capital markets union. Drawing on geographical theories of space and scale, the paper collates the large interdisciplinary literature on financial integration with an emphasis on the work of financial geographers. The result is a distinctive geographical perspective on European financial integration intended to inform new rounds of empirical research.

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“…Competitive pressure together with the computerisation of banking transformed European and British banks' strategic direction. In continental Europe, this meant a pronounced shift away from the historically deep relationship with domestic industry towards global engagement, investment banking, and generally higher levels of risk-taking (Larson, Schnyder, Westerhuis, & Wilson, 2011). British banks followed suit, putting an end to the post-war engagement with domestic industry and returning to their historically-rooted global orientation.…”

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Corporate networks in post-war Britain: Do finance–industry relationships matter for corporate borrowing?

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2019

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The relationship between interlocking directorates and corporate finance patterns is a widelyresearched aspect of the literature on national financial systems. This literature often considers the United Kingdom to be analogous to the United States, without directly investigating the nature and impact of finance-industry relationships. Based on a handcollected dataset covering eight benchmark years between 1950 and 2010, we start filling this gap by combining historical narratives, social network-, and regression analyses. We investigate whether finance-industry relations impact corporate borrowing patterns differently across time periods. We find that network-embedding impacted corporate borrowing from the 1950s to 1970s, but not thereafter. We also find that network structure and its function do not always evolve in parallel, highlighting limitations of purely structural approaches to understanding the link between corporate networks and firm behaviour and the importance of the historical idiosyncrasies of each country case.

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Strategic responses to global challenges: The case of European banking, 1973–2000

Cited by 22 publications

References 9 publications

Recontextualizing Anthropomorphic Metaphors in Organization Studies

Recontextualizing Anthropomorphic Metaphors in Organization Studies

European Union financial integration, a geography perspective

Corporate networks in post-war Britain: Do finance–industry relationships matter for corporate borrowing?

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