Making sense of the collapse of Barings Bank
通过分析巴林银行倒闭的官方报告与记者、当事人及学者的不同叙述，揭示官方报告如何作为一种权力工具，旨在维护英格兰银行和伦敦金融城的合法性。
We may usefully interrogate individual texts in order to expose them as exercises in power that serve hegemonic and legitimation functions. To illustrate this argument I analyse the account of the collapse of Barings Bank given in the Report of the Board of Banking Supervision, and juxtapose this with other versions of the events given by investigative journalists, Nicholas Leeson, and management scholars.The Report, I suggest, promulgates a public discourse myth designed to mitigate public anxieties, and is an explicit attempt to maintain and reproduce the legitimacy of the Bank of England, the City of London, and existing regulatory structures.