PhD defence: Jack Kværnø-Jones

PhD defence: Jack Kværnø-Jones

In order to obtain the PhD degree, Jack Kværnø-Jones has submitted his thesis entitled:

Intersections Between FinTech Imaginaries and Traditional Banking.

A Study of Disciplinary, Implementary, and Parasitic Work in the Danish Financial Sector

Jack’s PhD research explores how financial professionals connect imaginaries of ‘disruptive’ FinTech with established organisational contexts of traditional banking, motivated by an interest in how possibilities for change associated with digital technologies are delimited. Drawing on discussions of sociotechnical assemblages and imagination across STS, anthropology, and cultural economy, the thesis conceptualises sites in which financial professionals work with FinTech imaginaries as ‘imaginative intersections’. Through fieldwork with traditional bankers and FinTech entrepreneurs, the project surfaces three forms of work within ‘imaginative intersections’ – disciplinary, implementary, and parasitic – through which financial professionals connect FinTech imaginaries to established banking operations. These findings are discussed in relation to a burgeoning agenda on imagination in organisation studies.

Primary Supervisor:

Associate Professor Ursula Plesner
Department of Organization
Copenhagen Business School

Secondary Supervisors:

Associate Professor José Ossandón
Department of Organization
Copenhagen Business School

Assessment Committee:

Associate Professor Karen Boll (Chair)
Department of Organization
Copenhagen Business School

Associate Professor Zsuzsanna Vargha
Management Control
ESCP Business School

Professor Steffen Dalsgaard
Business IT Department
IT University of Copenhagen

Thesis:
The thesis will be available from research.cbs.dk

Reception:
The CBS PhD School will host a reception, which will take place immediately after the defence in the IOA kitchen area on the 4th floor at Kilen.