Fiona Wilson

Glyndwr University
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    Making Loan Decisions in Banks: Straight from the Gut?
    Journal of Business Ethics 137 (1): 53-63. 2016.
    When a business owner approaches a bank for a loan for their business they might hope that a well-established bureaucratic procedure would ensure that their application was processed with stipulated rules and impersonal criteria. They might expect that two bank officials, evaluating the same proposal for a loan, would reach the same decision. However, research shows that both quantifiable data and “gut feelings” are used in the decision. In this research, analysis of interviews with senior manag…Read more
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    Humanistic and economistic approaches to banking – better banking lessons from the financial crisis?
    with Michael Pirson and Anuj Gangahar
    Business Ethics: A European Review 25 (4): 400-415. 2016.
    We sketch out two basic paradigms informing banking practice: the economistic paradigm focusing on profit maximization and the humanistic one, serving the common good. We then highlight paradigmatic cases to explore how each of these business models fared during the quasi-natural experiment of the financial crisis. We find that many humanistic banks outperformed traditional economistic banks. Despite the uneven playing field humanistic banks fared remarkably well with regard to traditional finan…Read more
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    Ethnicity, Equality and Voice: The Ethics and Politics of Representation and Participation in Relation to Equality and Ethnicity (review)
    with Nelarine Cornelius, Miguel Martinez Lucio, Suzanne Gagnon, Robert MacKenzie, and Eric Pezet
    Journal of Business Ethics 97 (S1): 1-7. 2010.