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Ann Mari Sellerberg

Ann Mari Sellerberg

Professor emerita

Ann Mari Sellerberg

Receivers of (dis)trust: Administrators in bankruptcy

Author

  • Ann Mari Sellerberg

Summary, in English

Analyses of economic actions often proceed from a consideration of how trust serves as a basis for the interaction of economic agents. A bankruptcy entails a breach of the relations of trust in an economic network. Receivers are the lawyers appointed by Swedish courts to investigate and ultimately resolve bankrupts disputes. The article demonstrates how the manner in which receivers characterise their work becomes a way for them to articulate the very particular kind of knowledge they need in these networks in trouble, which are – as they themselves put it – tricky. Their way of interpreting their work also becomes a way to create a kind of stability in these shaky networks.

Department/s

  • Sociology

Publishing year

2007

Language

English

Document type

Working paper

Topic

  • Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)

Keywords

  • work descriptions
  • bankruptcy
  • receivers
  • trust
  • assertiveness
  • sociologi
  • sociology

Status

Unpublished

Research group

  • Sociology of Everyday Life