Table of Contents

PrefaceCHAPTER 1Mediating Business- Toward a Relational PerspectivePART I: BUSINESS NEWS AND MEDIA ORDERSCHAPTER 2The Nordic Business Press and the New Field of Business Journalism (1960-2005)CHAPTER 3The Professionalization of Business Journalism in FinlandCHAPTER 4Expansion of the Nordic Business Press- Aripaev in Estonia as a Carrier of Western DiscoursesPART II: BUSINESS NEWS, PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE AND MEANINGCHAPTER 5Transforming Business News Content- A Comparative AnalysisCHAPTER 6Changing Constructions of Business and Society in the NewsCHAPTER 7The Gospel According to the Global Market- How Journalists Frame Ownership in the Case of Nokia in FinlandPART III: BUSINESS NEWS AND ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGECHAPTER 8The Negotiation of Business NewsCHAPTER 9Dressing Up Hospitals as Enterprises?- The Expansion and Managerialization of Communication in Norwegian HospitalsCHAPTER 10Corporate Governance and the Media- From Agency Theory to Edited CorporationsCHAPTER 11Media Transparency as an Institutional Practice

About the Author

Peter Kjaer is Associate Professor in the Department of Organization at the Copenhagen Business School. His research interests include: business journalism, management knowledge and institutions, and strategic communication. He has published articles in Journal of Economic Issues, Scandinavian Journal of Management, and Business History, and has also written a number of book chapters on these topics. In 2001-2006 he directed the research project "The Rise of the Nordic Business Press". In 2003-2007 he participated in the Danish media research project "PRO-Media". Currently he is Director of the Center for Health Management at the Copenhagen Business School.Tore Slatta is Professor in the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Oslo and writes about issues related to European culture and media, the relationship between the economic field and journalism, EU journalism, cultural policies, urban development, design, art and architecture. He was responsible for the media research in the Norwegian Research Program on Power and Democracy (1998-2003) and director of the research project "Symbolic Power in the Economic and the Political fields", publiched in Den norske medieorden (The NOrwegian Media Order) (2003) and Digital makt (Digital Power) (2002).

Reviews

"The position occupied by business and economic news has transformed over recent decades with important implications for industry and its organization, for journalists and others involved professionally in news mediation and, not least, for society and its understanding of this increasingly influential dimension of public discourse. Based on pioneering research, this book provides a welcome and unique analysis of both the expansion and the modernization of business news provision in Nordic countries. The authors provide an authoritative historical account and a penetrating and insightful critique of the contribution of the modern business press to news production as a whole and to businessknowledge within society."Gillian Doyle, Senior Lecturer, Department of Film and Media Studies,University of Stirling, Scotland"The expansion of business news has received relatively limited attention from individual social sciences. This team of researchers provides much needed interdisciplinary breadth and integration that provides a foundation for future research on business news."David Deephouse, Associate Professor,Department of Strategic Management and Organization,University of Alberta, Canada"This book gives a fresh view on the interaction between business, media, and economic discourse. Despite global trends and similarities among the Nordic countries the authors demonstrate how business media are still formed by national history and culture."Olof Petersson, Professor of Political Science,Centre for Business and Policy Studies, SNS, Stockholm, Sweden