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Who can start a stock exchange? Silent legitimacy, mundane materiality and the genesis of markets

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Publication date2020
<mark>Original language</mark>English
Event80th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management 2020: Understanding the Inclusive Organization, AoM 2020 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 7/08/202011/08/2020

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Conference80th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management 2020: Understanding the Inclusive Organization, AoM 2020
CityVirtual, Online
Period7/08/2011/08/20

Abstract

This study considers the genesis and development of two stock markets established in London in 1995. It draws on elite interviews and documentary sources to explore how the founders of these markets sought to legitimize them as stable, durable venues for security trade. The study uses insights from the STS-inflected study of markets to present an account of legitimacy as embedded in taken-for-granted socio-material structures. We term this phenomenon 'silent legitimacy'. Contributing to a nascent 'material turn' in institutional theory, we argue that the markets-as-institutions literature can be strengthened through attention to the mundane material dimensions of institutional fields.

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