Decision Taking, Confidence and Risk Management in Banks from Early Modernity to the 20th Century

<p>Chapter 1) Introduction; Korinna Schönhärl.- Part 1: Recruitment of Personnel and Partners.- Chapter 2) The House of Morgan: Private family bank in transition; Susie J Pak.- Chapter 3) Cooperative Governance in Banking: Consequences for decision-taking processes; Friederike Sattler.- Chapter 4) Top Careers as a Means of Risk Management in Organisations; Daniel Wylegala.- Part 2) Risk Management Techniques.- Chapter 5) Minimizing Risk: Financial intermediaries and bond issuing in London before the Great War; Anders l Mikkelsen.- Chapter 6) Financial Centres as Fields: Reflections on habitus and risk in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.- Chapter 7) The “Reputation Approach” and the Justificatory Function of Economic Calculation: Some Critical Reflections on Monika Pohle Fraser’s Analysis of Risk Management Techniques in the Nineteenth Century; Sebastian Knake.- Chapter 8) Investigating Attitudes to risk in British Banking: A case study of Barclays’ branch banking system, c. 1900-80; Matthew Hollow.- Chapter 9) Between novelty and fashion – Risk management and the adoption of computers in retail banking; Bernardo Bátiz-Lazo.- Part 3: Methodological Tools for Historians: Network-Theory, Principal-Agent-Relationship, Behavioural Finance and Social Capital.- Chapter 10) Social capital versus commercial profits: The pressure of networks on decision making in early modern banks; Nadia Matringe.- Chapter 11) Risk management, credit and the operation of merchants’ networks in early modern banking; Daniel Velinov.- Chapter 12) The role of group psychology in behavioural finance: A research starting point for banking, economic and financial historians; Victor Ricciardi.- Chapter 13) Behavioural finance as a methodological approach for historians? A field report concerning the construction of the Canal of Corinth in nineteenth-century Greece; Korinna Schönhärl.- Chapter 14) Considering social capital and the future research of banking history; Morten Reitmayer.</p>