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You are invited to: Reinsurance markets and the future of trading large-scale risk
Tuesday 9th June 2015, 6-7.30 pm
Cass Business School, 106 Bunhill Row
The global market for large-scale risks has never been more important, as climate change exacerbates natural disasters and concerns arise over new threats such as cyber-risk.
Join us for a drinks and canapé reception as we launch our Oxford University Press book: Making a Market for Acts of God: The practice of risk-trading in the global reinsurance industry (authored by Paula Jarzabkowski, Rebecca Bednarek and Paul Spee)
The event will present the findings about the practice of trading risk in the global reinsurance industry and will also feature an expert panel debating the implications for the future of trading in large-scale risk and reflect on the lessons we can learn from other markets.
To register and learn more about this event click: http://www.city.ac.uk/events/2015/june/reinsurance-markets-and-the-future-of-trading-large-scale-risk
- Speaker: Paula Jarzabkowski, Professor of Strategic Management at Cass Business School, City University London
Expert industry and academic panel:
- Tom Bolt, Executive Team member and Director of Performance Management at Lloyd's of London
- Clem Booth, (re)insurance industry veteran, formerly executive board member of Allianz SE and CEO of Aon Benfield Global Inc and many other executive positions in the industry.
- Michael Power, Professor of Accounting, and former Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Regulation at LSE
Event information
Date: 9th June, 2015 6pm-7.30pm
Location: Room LG001, Cass Business School, 106 Bunhill Row, London, EC1Y 8TZ
About Making a Market for Acts of God:
This ethnographic study of the insurance industry performs an important and urgent task: it exposes the everyday practices by which global financial markets work. The authors bring wonderful clarity to difficult themes, from the structuring of financial deals to developing a macro-level theory of social practice that will be insightful for scholars adopting strategy-as-practice or practice approaches more broadly. This book will be a stimulating read for financial professionals, social scientists, regulators and policy makers alike. Richard Whittington, Professor of Strategy, University of Oxford
Jarzabkowski, Bednarek and Spee succeed in the ambitious project of describing the global reinsurance market in terms of a set of interrelated practices. The book provides an original contribution to the social studies of markets and finance and is without a doubt one of the best available illustrations of the heuristic power of the practice approach. It is also a demonstration of how relational and practice-based approaches can tackle big questions and provide fresh and relevant insights. Above all, the book is testimony of the excellent intellectual skills and methodological prowess of the authors - a masterclass in how to study and describe in an accessible way a seemingly complex and almost intractable phenomenon. A notable achievement. Davide Nicolini, Professor of Organization Studies, Warwick Business School.
For further information about this book, see: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199664764.do
Paula Jarzabkowski
Professor of Strategic Management
Cass Business School, City University London
Mobile: +44 (0)7951 222114
Tel: +44 (0)20 7040 0955
Email: P.Jarzabkowski@city.ac.uk
Homepage: www.cass.city.ac.uk/experts/P.Jarzabkowski