Purpose

The fund management sector plays an important role in society. The sector exists in close proximity to the accounting profession and the concerns of the paper reflect themes discussed by accounting scholars, particularly financialization, inequality and life within elite professional service organizations.

Design/methodology/approach

This is an interpretive study of the fund management field based in the UK. It is based on 32 semi-structured interviews with individuals with personal experience of the field, combined with reflections from the researcher's own experience as a practitioner within the field.

Findings

The paper describes the backgrounds and motivations of individuals entering the field, the recruitment processes through which they are admitted, and the different strategies used to gain admission to the field. It explores the habitus of successful professionals in the field and the effects of this habitus.

Social implications

An important social implication of the paper is the problematization of the fund management industry's dislocation from broader society.

Originality/value

By identifying the different strategies employed by applicants from different backgrounds, it highlights the role of reflexive agency and the complicity between agent and field. Recognizing that professional fund management is organized as a game, it suggests that individuals are so committed to the game they know they are playing that they fail to realize that they are also drawn into a different game, namely the absorbing game of being a fund manager.

中文翻译：

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镀金之路：基金管理领域的资本、惯习和错觉

目的

基金管理部门在社会中发挥着重要作用。该部门与会计专业密切相关，本文所关注的问题反映了会计学者讨论的主题，特别是金融化、不平等和精英专业服务组织内的生活。

设计/方法/方法

这是对英国基金管理领域的解释性研究。它基于对具有该领域个人经验的个人的 32 次半结构化访谈，并结合研究人员作为该领域从业者的自身经验的反思。

发现

该论文描述了进入该领域的个人的背景和动机、他们被录取的招聘过程以及用于获得该领域录取的不同策略。它探讨了该领域成功专业人士的习惯以及这种习惯的影响。

社会影响

该论文的一个重要社会意义是基金管理行业与更广泛的社会脱节的问题化。

原创性/价值

通过识别来自不同背景的申请人所采用的不同策略，它突出了反思性代理的作用以及代理与领域之间的共谋。认识到专业基金管理是一种游戏，它表明个人对他们知道自己正在玩的游戏如此投入，以至于他们没有意识到他们也被卷入了另一个游戏，即成为基金经理的引人入胜的游戏.