The role of financial analysts in the social construction of financial value

Isabelle Chambost (1)

1 LIRSA - Laboratoire interdisciplinaire de recherche en sciences de l'action

By enlisting the contributions of institutional sociology, economic sociology and professional sociology, this chapter therefore proposes to analyse the social measures – relational structuring, symbolic and cognitive systems – implemented within financial intermediation that seek to institute the financial analyst as a professional guarantor for the informational efficiency of markets, and to control the development of his/her judgements.

Mots clés: financial Analyst; Financial value; Social studies of finance

Domaines: Sciences de l'Homme et Société

Isabelle Chambost. The role of financial analysts in the social construction of financial value. Isabelle Chambost; Marc Lenglet; Yamina Tadjeddine. The making of finance. Perspectives from the social sciences, Routlege, pp.37-44, 2019, 978-1-138-49857-0. ⟨10.4324/9781351016117-6⟩. ⟨hal-02106232⟩