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One dimensional man

David Bell
- 01 May 1965 - 
- Vol. 6, Iss: 2, pp 17-20
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Marginalization and Recovery: The Emergence of Aristotelian Themes in Organization Studies

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that this new antithetical thinking can be interpreted as the re-surfacing of certain strands of Aristotelian philosophy, strands that were marginalized with the rise of scientific rational ism in the 17th century, before management and organization studies, as we tend to conceive of them.
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Systems thinking, systems practice, and practical philosophy: A program of research

Werner Ulrich
TL;DR: In this article, a three-level framework of rational systems practice is proposed as a point of departure for a program of research on rational practice in systems practice, and the authors argue that building the bridge between the two traditions of systems thinking and practical philosophy is a key challenge to be faced by the systems community.
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States and markets

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors narrated the intellectual genesis of this dyad in eighteenth and nineteenth-century British political economy and elaborated the international economy as a new theoretical object, in which Adam Smith's arguments in Wealth of Nations were central, for there the analysis of strength is uncoupled from the analyses of wealth, de-politicising the international and making the economic denunciation of war possible.
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Don’t we care?: the ethics and emotional labour of early years professionalism

TL;DR: Early childhood education and care (ECEC) has a legitimate aspiration to be a "caring profession" like others such as nursing or social work, defined by a moral purpose as discussed by the authors.
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B2B e-commerce adoption decisions in Taiwan: The interaction of cultural and other institutional factors

TL;DR: Results indicate that organizational, industrial, governmental, and cultural factors do indeed influence B2B e-commerce adoption decisions in Taiwan and the nature of the cultural influence is dictated by industry conditions.
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Staged Authenticity: arrangements of social space in tourist settings

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined accounts of travelers in terms of Erving Goffman's front versus back distinction and found that tourists try to enter back regions of the places they visit because these regions are associated with intimacy of relations and authenticity of experiences.
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Work, Self and Society: After Industrialism

TL;DR: Casey as discussed by the authors explored the effects of contemporary practices of work on the self and found that changes currently occuring in the world of work are part of the vast social and cultural changes that are challenging the meta trends of modern industrialism.
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What is critical urban theory

Neil Brenner
- 01 Jun 2009 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors interpret critical urban theory with reference to four mutually interconnected elements: its theoretical character; its reflexivity; its critique of instrumental reason; and its emphasis on the disjuncture between the actual and the possible.
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Self-doubters, strugglers, storytellers, surfers and others: Images of self-identities in organization studies

Mats Alvesson
- 19 Jan 2010 - 
TL;DR: The authors provide an overview of the key images of identity in organizations found in the research literature, including self-doubters, strugglers, surfers, storytellers, strategists, stencils and soldiers.