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Article Dans Une Revue International Review of Financial Analysis Année : 2015

Diversifying finance research: From financialization to sustainability

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This paper seeks to overcome the apparent contradictions between global demand for sustainability and the structure of conventional financial discourse by putting forth a strategy for diversifying academic finance. It comprises four sections. I first situate academic finance within the broader spectrum of social sciences and highlight its ontological, epistemological and methodological assumptions. Second, I show that these assumptions, taken for granted within the field of finance, are the object of much debate within other fields – as is demonstrated by controversy regarding logical positivism, social ontology and performativity – which brings out the limitations of paradigmatic unity in finance. Third, I characterize diversification in finance with reference to the nested epistemological structure of scientific discourse. I argue that diversification is a process by which (i) finance research is extended to other existing paradigms in social sciences; (ii) new research metaphors are developed within the current paradigm; and (iii) puzzle-solving robustness is achieved. Fourth, I develop a research agenda for the diversification of academic finance. This agenda is broken down into themes, paradigmatic hypotheses, and research questions.

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hal-01456136 , version 1 (03-02-2017)

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Thomas Lagoarde-Segot. Diversifying finance research: From financialization to sustainability. International Review of Financial Analysis, 2015, 39, pp.1--6. ⟨10.1016/j.irfa.2015.01.004⟩. ⟨hal-01456136⟩
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