Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction : on the question of the primacy of leadership -- The ancien regime leader : the corporate manager -- The decline of collectivism and the new masculinity discourse -- The new generation of leaders : the charismatic leader -- Leadership work in the new...

The term 'financialization' denotes the general tendency in the advanced Western economies to allow a substantial proportion of taxable profits to accumulate in the finance industry. Alexander Styhre discusses the financialization of the firm in the period after 1980 and stresses how key...