This article aims to examine the role of objects in the transformation of logics (Thornton & Ocasio, 2008) at the practice level. In particular, it explores how financial actors use, transform and are constrained by their ‘market devices' – defined as a range of instruments, models and tools...

Investment managers use financial numbers to assess the quality of their portfolios, which requires them to estimate the market value of their assets-i.e., the priced trading of such assets. Prior research has shown that investment managers tend to disregard information that does not easily...

This article summarizes the key practical insights and results from a study published by the authors in Business and Society. It demonstrates that collaborative engagement with companies on environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) issues provides institutional investors with...