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The New Spirit of Capitalism

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A century after the publication of Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism, a major new work examines network-based organization, employee autonomy and post-Fordist horizontal work structures.
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A century after the publication of Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism, a major new work examines network-based organization, employee autonomy and post-Fordist horizontal work structures.

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Production, Circulation, and Accumulation: The Historiographies of Capitalism in China and South Asia – ERRATUM

TL;DR: The authors reviewed and critically situates how the category "capitalism" has been debated within the historiographies of China and South Asia, and concluded that the core dynamics of capitalism as a cyclical process of "capital accumulation", one that integrates both production and circulation-centered approaches and also challenges Eurocentric histories of capitalism.
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La lutte contre le gaspillage alimentaire en France et aux Etats-Unis : mise en cause, mise en politique et mise en marché des excédents alimentaires

Marie Mourad
TL;DR: A travers le cas de la lutte contre le gaspillage alimentaire in France and aux Etats-Unis, this article met en evidence les rouages de la transformation d’organisations capitalistes par l'incorporation de critiques sociales and ecologiques, selon le processus theorise par Boltanski et Chiapello dans Le nouvel esprit du capitalisme (1999).
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Financial Phantasmagoria: Corporate Image-Work in Times of Crisis

TL;DR: The authors collected 241 separate advertisements from 61 financial institutions published in the Financial Times over the period January-December 2008 and read across the ensemble of ads for themes and evocative images, sketching an outline in symbolic space as it were, providing an impression of the financial imaginaries created by these organizations as the global financial crisis unfolded.
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The novel and organization: introduction from the Editors

TL;DR: The relationship between novels and organizational change is a complex, iterative one that should be understood in its historical, political, economic and cultural context as mentioned in this paper, and if so understood, novels can enhance our understanding of organizational processes.
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Discourse, justification and critique: towards a legitimate digital copyright regime?

TL;DR: In this article, the role of discourse in copyright debates is investigated by analysing user-directed marketing campaigns and submissions to UK government policy consultations, concluding that legitimacy claims are justified and critiqued, and that there is some hope of achieving a more legitimate policy resolution to the copyright wars.
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A thousand plateaus : capitalism and schizophrenia

TL;DR: In this paper, a translation of the poem "The Pleasures of Philosophy" is presented, with a discussion of concrete rules and abstract machines in the context of art and philosophy.
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The Economic Institutions of Capitalism

Paolo Leon
TL;DR: The 2008 crash has left all the established economic doctrines - equilibrium models, real business cycles, disequilibria models - in disarray as discussed by the authors, and a good viewpoint to take bearings anew lies in comparing the post-Great Depression institutions with those emerging from Thatcher and Reagan's economic policies: deregulation, exogenous vs. endoge- nous money, shadow banking vs. Volcker's Rule.
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The Society of the Spectacle

Guy Debord
TL;DR: The Society of the Spectacle as mentioned in this paper is one of the most influential theoretical works for a wide range of political and revolutionary practice in the 1960s, and it has been widely used in the literature since.
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Relevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting

TL;DR: Relevance Lost as mentioned in this paper is an overview of the evolution of management accounting in American business, from textile mills in the 1880s and the giant railroad, steel, and retail corporations, to today's environment of global competition and computer-automated manufacturers.