Karel Williams

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• 2024

  Place and mobility in Wales: Challenges and opportunities for reducing car use in a car-dependent, low-density country

  Calafati, L., Froud, J., Haslam, C., Johal, S. & Williams, K., 6 Sept 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Local Economy. 38, 8, p. 773-793 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • UK 100%
  • Central City 100%
  • Welsh 33%
  • World City 33%
  • Small Town 33%
• 2020

  (How) does productivity matter in the foundational economy?

  Froud, J., Haslam, C., Johal, S. & Williams, K., 20 Sept 2020, In: Local Economy.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Productivity 100%
  • Economy 100%
  • Activity 40%
  • Region 40%
  • Economics 40%
  358 Downloads (Pure)

• Diversity in leading and laggard regions: living standards, residual income and regional policy

  Calafati, L., Froud, J., Haslam, C., Johal, S. & Williams, K., 13 Aug 2020, (Accepted/In press) In: Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Residual Income 100%
  • Incomes Policy 100%
  • Wealth 33%
  • Housing Costs 33%
  • Standard of Living 33%

• The imaginary of the city versus messy realities

  Stafford, A., Stapleton, P., Wei, H. & Williams, K., 16 Jan 2020, In: Financial Accountability & Management. 36, 3, p. 244-260 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Urban Development 100%
  • Restructuring 100%
  • Cost of Capital 100%
  • Cost Recovery 100%
  • Public Transport 100%
  92 Downloads (Pure)
• 2018

  Capabilities and habitat in industrial renewal: the case of UK textiles

  Froud, J., Hayes, S., Wei, H. & Williams, K., 20 Sept 2018, In: Cambridge Journal of Economics. 42, 6, p. 1643-1669 27 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Specific Industry 100%
  • Material Flow Management 100%
  • Industrial Policy 100%
  • Large Firm 100%
  • UK 100%
  277 Downloads (Pure)
• 2017

  Introduction: Elites and Power after Financialization

  Davis, A. & Williams, K., 2017, In: Theory, Culture & Society: explorations in critical social science .

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • ExPeRT 100%
  • Frame-work 100%
  • 1950s 100%
  • Insecurity 100%
  • Intermediaries 100%
  123 Downloads (Pure)

• It is the business model... Reframing the problems of UK retail banking

  Froud, J., Tischer, D. & Williams, K., Jan 2017, In: Critical Perspectives on Accounting. 42, p. 1-19

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  • Business Model 100%
  • UK 100%
  • Model Analysis 50%
  • Competitive Market 25%
  • Policy Approach 25%
  1402 Downloads (Pure)

• Outsourcing the state: new sources of elite power

  Froud, J., Johal, S., Moran, M. & Williams, K., Sept 2017, In: Theory, Culture & Society: explorations in critical social science . 34, 5-6, p. 77-101 25 p.

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  • Outsourcing 100%
  • Ruling Class 100%
  • And-States 100%
  • New-State 100%
  • Contract Law 66%
  225 Downloads (Pure)

• The grounded city: from competitivity to the foundational economy

  Engelen, E., Froud, J., Johal, S., Salento, A. & Williams, K., 30 Aug 2017, In: Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society. 10, 3, p. 407–423

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  • Modern cities 100%
  645 Downloads (Pure)

• Trade associations, narrative and elite power

  Bowman, A., Froud, J., Johal, S. & Williams, K., 1 Sept 2017, In: Theory, Culture & Society: explorations in critical social science . 34, 5-6, p. 103-126

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  • Narrative 100%
  • Ruling Class 100%
  • Trade Associations 100%
  • Discourse 100%
  • Legislation 50%
  150 Downloads (Pure)
• 2016

  Breaking the Constitutional Silence: the Public Services Industry and Government

  Johal, S., Moran, M. & Williams, K., 1 Jul 2016, In: The Political Quarterly. 87, 3, p. 389-397 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Company 100%
  • Outsourcing 100%
  • Public Utilities 100%
  • Enterprises 100%
  • Service Industries 100%
  59 Downloads (Pure)

• Multiple economies (before and after Brexit)

  Froud, J., Johal, S. & Williams, K., 19 Nov 2016, (Accepted/In press) In: Socio-Economic Review.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• 2014

  Just the facts: on the success of Piketty's Capital

  Engelen, E. & Williams, K., Aug 2014, In: Environment and Planning A. 46, 8, p. 1771-1777 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Power, politics and the City of London after the Great Financial Crisis

  Johal, S., Moran, M. & Williams, K., Jul 2014, In: Government and Opposition. 49, 3, p. 400-425 25 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Crisis 100%
  • City of London 100%
  • Power politics 100%
  • London 100%
  • Financial Crisis 100%
• 2013

  (How) do devices matter in Finance?

  Ertürk, I., Froud, J., Leaver, A., Johal, S. & Williams, K., 2013, In: Journal of Cultural Economy. 6, 3, p. 336-352 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Opportunism 100%
  • Political Analysis 100%
  • Bricolage 100%
  • Income Inequality 100%
  • English usage 100%

• Opportunist dealing in the UK pig meat supply chain: Trader mentalities and alternatives

  Bowman, A., Froud, J., Johal, S., Leaver, A. & Williams, K., Dec 2013, In: Accounting Forum. 37, 4, p. 300-314 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Supermarket 100%
  • Food Supply 20%
  • Horse Meat 20%
  • Food Group 20%
  • Meat Product 20%

• Unsustainable employment portfolios

  Buchanan, J., Dymski, G., Froud, J., Johal, S., Leaver, A. & Williams, K., Jun 2013, In: Work, Employment and Society. 27, 3, p. 396-413 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Occupations 100%
  • Structural Reform 50%
  • UK 50%
  • Case Study 50%
• 2012

  Accounting for national success and failure: Rethinking the UK case

  Erturk, I., Froud, J., Johal, S., Leaver, A. & Williams, K., Mar 2012, In: Accounting Forum. 36, 1, p. 5-17 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • UK 100%
  • Accountants 100%
  • Intermediate Labor Market 100%
  • Empirics 66%
  • Regional Difference 33%

• Misrule of experts? The financial crisis as elite debacle

  Engelen, E., Ertürk, I., Froud, J., Johal, S., Leaver, A., Moran, M. & Williams, K., Aug 2012, In: Economy and Society. 41, 3, p. 360-382 22 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Financial Crisis 100%
  • Political Control 50%
  • Bricolage 50%
  • Political Elite 50%
  242 Downloads (Pure)

• Private equity and the concept of brittle trust

  Froud, J., Green, S. & Williams, K., Feb 2012, In: sociological review. 60, 1, p. 1-24 23 p.

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  • London 100%
  • UK 100%
  • Private Equity 100%
  152 Downloads (Pure)

• Stories and interests in finance: Agendas of governance before and after the financial crisis

  Froud, J., Nilsson, A., Moran, M. & Williams, K., Jan 2012, In: Governance. 25, 1, p. 35-59 24 p.

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  • Financial Crisis 100%
  • Crisis 100%
  • Narrative 100%
  • Legislation 50%
  • Fate 20%
  207 Downloads (Pure)
• 2011

  Haldane's gambit: Political arithmetic and/or a new metaphor

  Erturk, I., Froud, J., Leaver, A., Moran, M. & Williams, K., Nov 2011, In: Journal of Cultural Economy. 4, 4, p. 387-404 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Narrative 100%
  • Financial Crisis 100%
  • Empirics 100%
  • Social Benefit 100%
  • Financial Network 100%
• 2010

  Hedge funds as 'war machine': Making the positions work

  Ertürk, I., Leaver, A. & Williams, K., Mar 2010, In: New Political Economy. 15, 1, p. 9-28 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Funds 100%
  • War machine 100%
  • Credit Rationing 100%
  • Traders 28%
  • Excess 14%

• Reconceptualizing financial innovation: Frame, conjuncture and bricolage

  Engelen, E., Erturk, I., Froud, J., Leaver, A. & Williams, K., Feb 2010, In: Economy and Society. 39, 1, p. 33-63 30 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Bricolage 100%
  • Financial Crisis 100%
• 2009

  Narratives and the financialised firm

  Froud, J., Leaver, A., Johal, S., Nilsson, A. & Williams, K., 2009, In: Kolner Zeitschrift fur Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie. 49, p. 288-476 188 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Specific Industry 100%
  • Financialization 100%
  • Narrative 100%
  • Registre 10%
  • Limits 10%

• Stressed by choice: A business model analysis of the BBC

  Froud, J., Johal, S., Leaver, A., Phillips, R. & Williams, K., Jun 2009, In: British Journal of Management. 20, 2, p. 252-264 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Business Model 100%
  • Model Analysis 100%
  • Legislation 40%
  • Restructuring 20%
  • Specific Industry 20%
• 2008

  Art for art's sake or selling up?

  Faulkner, S., Leaver, A., Vis, F. & Williams, K., Sept 2008, In: European Journal of Communication. 23, 3, p. 295-317 22 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Medium-Sized Firm 100%
  • Real Options Analysis 100%

• Corporate governance and impossibilism

  Erturk, I., Froud, J., Johal, S., Leaver, A. & Williams, K., 2008, In: Journal of Cultural Economy. 1, 2, p. 109-28 80 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• 2007

  Against agency: A positional critique

  Erturk, I., Froud, J., Johal, S., Leaver, A. & Williams, K., Feb 2007, In: Economy and Society. 36, 1, p. 51-77 26 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Contemporary 100%
  • Visible 100%
  • Giant 100%
  • Discursive construction 100%
  • Intermediaries 100%

• New actors in a financialised economy and the remaking of capitalism

  Froud, J., Leaver, A. & Williams, K., Sept 2007, In: New Political Economy. 12, 3, p. 339-347 8 p.

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• Private equity and the culture of value extraction

  Froud, J. & Williams, K., Sept 2007, In: New Political Economy. 12, 3, p. 405-420 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Working for themselves? Capital market intermediaries and present day capitalism

  Folkman, P., Froud, J., Johal, S. & Williams, K., Jul 2007, In: Business History. 49, 4, p. 552-572 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Restructuring 100%
  • Business Model 50%
  • Private Equity 50%
  • Profit 50%
  • Corporate Law 50%
• 2005

  Corporate Governance for Shareholder Value or Management Enrichment? (translated into French La gouvernance d'enterprise au service de la valeuractionnariale ou de l'enrichissement des dirigeants?)

  Erturk, I., Froud, J., Johal, S., Leaver, A. & Williams, K., 2005, In: A Contrario. 2, 2

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• Democratisation of finance and financial literacy

  Ertürk, I., Froud, J., Johal, S., Leaver, A. & Williams, K., 2005, In: Kurswechsel. 3, p. 42-54

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• Different worlds of motoring: Choice, constraint and risk in household consumption

  Froud, J., Johal, S., Leaver, A. & Williams, K., Feb 2005, In: sociological review. 53, 1, p. 96-128 32 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • London 100%
  • Revisionism 50%
  • Case Study 50%
  • Cultural Economy 50%
  • Official Statistic 50%

• The Democratisation of Finance: promises, outcomes and conditions (translated into German Finanz-Demokratisierung und finanzielle Allgemeinbildung)

  Froud, J., Williams, K., Erturk, I., Johal, S. & Leaver, A., 2005, In: Kurswechsel. 3

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• 2004

  Corporate governance and disappointment

  Leaver, A., Erturk, I., Froud, J., Johal, S. & Williams, K., Oct 2004, In: Review of International Political Economy. 11, 4, p. 677-713 36 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Corporate Governance 100%
  • USA 37%
  • UK 37%
  • Social Responsibility 12%
  • Narrative 12%

• The temptation of Houston: A case study of financialisation

  Froud, J., Johal, S., Papazian, V. & Williams, K., Aug 2004, In: Critical Perspectives on Accounting. 15, 6-7, p. 885-909 24 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Reform 100%
  • Temptation 100%
  • Case Study 100%
  • Political Economy 100%
  • Financialization 100%
• 2003

  Enron: A Case Study in Financialisation

  Froud, J. & Williams, K., 2003, In: Critical Perspectives on Accounting.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• 2002

  Cars After Financialisation: a case study in financial under-performance, constraints and consequences

  Froud, J. & Williams, K., 2002, In: Competition and Change. 7(1)

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Financialisation and the Coupon Pool

  Froud, J. & Williams, K., 2002, In: Capital And Class. 78, p. 119-151

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Heaven and Hell: the micro experience and macro dynamics of inequality

  Froud, J. & Williams, K., 2002, In: Journal of Industrial Relations. 44, 1, p. 62-87

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• 2001

  Accumulation under conditions of inequality

  Froud, J., Johal, S., Haslam, C. & Williams, K., Mar 2001, In: Review of International Political Economy. 8, 1, p. 66-95 29 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Takeover 100%
  • Household Saving 100%

• A new business model? The capital market and the new economy

  Feng, H., Froud, J., Johal, S., Haslam, C. & Williams, K., Nov 2001, In: Economy and Society. 30, 4, p. 467-503 36 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Business Model 100%
  • New Economy 100%
  • Venture Capital 50%
  • Financialization 50%
  • Cost Recovery 50%

• Business as usual

  Williams, K., Nov 2001, In: Economy and Society. 30, 4, p. 399-411 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • New Economy 100%
  • Business Model 25%

• Finanzialisierung und ihre Folgen

  Froud, J. & Williams, K., 2001, In: Kurswechsel. 2

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Kurswechsel

  Froud, J. & Williams, K., 2001, In: Unknown Journal.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Not Enough Money: The resources and choices of the motoring poor

  Froud, J., Williams, K., Haslam, C., Leaver, A. & Johal, S., 2001, In: Competition and Change. 6, 1, p. 95-111

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• 2000

  Representing the Household: In and After Income Accounting

  Froud, J. & Williams, K., 2000, In: Auditing and Accountability Journal. 13, 4

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Restructuring for shareholder value and its implications for labour

  Williams, K., Froud, J., Williams, K., Johal, S. & Haslam, C., 2000, In: Cambridge Journal of Economics. 24, 6, p. 771-797 26 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Restructuring 100%
  • Shareholder Value 100%
  • Cost Recovery 25%
  • Labor Cost 25%