Accounting, Stock Markets and Everyday Life

The setting in this dissertation is certainly one ubiquitous aspect of each day living: the stock market. Traditionally, marketing and stock investing arenas are logically coordinate entities and that thesis examines how accounting helps private investors on their part as investors – as investors in shares and people who own firms. This analysis is conducted in four self-sufficient essays. The primary two essays analyze the privatization of Telia, an ancient state-owned Telecommunication Company in Sweden that went public in 2000. The area material for the two essays comprised of magazine articles, government bills and interviews. Qualitative and quantitative analyses demonstrate how accounting is employed among different actors to obtain the privatization. Theoretically, the earliest two essays lend themselves to the governmentality debate as exposed to accounting research by Miller and Rose (1990). The third and fourth essays are analyses of annual general conferences (AGMs). The sector material was created from the research of participants at 36 AGMs throughout the springtime of 2004.

Contents: Accounting, Stock Markets and Everyday Life

1. Introduction to accounting, stock markets and everyday life
2. Backdrop to stock markets and everyday life
2.1 Stock markets and everyday life– an overview of savings patterns
2.2 Stock markets and everyday life – a regulatory concern
2.2.1 The general public as investors
2.2.1 The general public as owners
2.3 Stock markets and everyday life – the role of newspapers
2.4 Stock markets and everyday life – a summary
3. Accounting, stock market and everyday life
3.1 Earlier research – accounting research and sociology of markets
3.2 Research questions about accounting, stock markets and everyday life
4. Accounting, stock markets and everyday life – introducing the four essays
4.1 Essays 1 and 2
4.2 Essays 3 and 4
5. Contribution and suggestions for future research
6. Concluding remarks and directions for future research
Bibliography
Newspaper articles cited in the text
Appendix 1 to section 2: Stock markets and everyday life – an overview of savings patterns
Documentary Sources
Appendix 2 to section 2.2: (Stock markets and everyday life – a regulatory concern)
Interviews
The study of the reports of the FI and the Swedish code of conduct
Documentary Sources