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The New Spirit of Capitalism
01 Jan 2005-
TL;DR: 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.
Abstract: 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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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the influence of partnerships with the arts on businesses and found that partnership collaboration with arts increases creativity and learning, and enhances positive relationships with communities and stakeholders.
Abstract: A substantial amount of research has analyzed business benefits that derive from arts sponsorship and philanthropy. However, very little has been investigated about the influence of partnerships with the arts on businesses. This article highlights the particular nature of partnership and compares sponsorship and partnership with respect to business benefits. The quantitative methodology was applied, collecting data from 239 companies that collaborate with arts organizations. The study shows that partnership collaboration with the arts increases creativity and learning, and enhances positive relationships with communities and stakeholders.
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TL;DR: The aim of the article is to indicate what assumptions justify the adoption of a neoclassical theory of public goods and the theory of incentives based on it, which justifies the creation of exclusive rights for the regulation of intangible goods.
Abstract: The shaping of the content of rights on intangible goods depends, inter alia, on the assumptions made about the models of organization of production processes and distribution of such goods as works or inventions. The currently adopted method of regulating such goods is based on exclusive rights. The aim of the article is to indicate what assumptions justify the adoption of such a model and their critical analysis. The starting point will be the neoclassical theory of public goods and the theory of incentives based on it, which justifies the creation of exclusive rights for the regulation of intangible goods. The indication will include that the conclusions derived from the theory of incentives do not take into account all the recommendations flowing from the theory of public goods. The theory of public goods does not justify, contrary to the claims made within the theory of incentives, that the creation of exclusive rights is a cost-free action, and desirable in every respect. The main point of the analysis is devoted to the assumption of the theory of incentives, which concerns the dominant model of creation and distribution of works and inventions. Contrary to the tacit assumption of this theory, people undertake creative and inventive activities within various models, guided by different motives. This state of affairs undermines the need to base the system of regulation of intangible goods, such as works or inventions, on the model of exclusive rights. What is more, taking into account other interests of entities creating under various models indicates that exclusive rights are not only not necessary, but can be harmful.
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01 Jan 2009
TL;DR: The authors argue that studies of media production should use grounded case studies in order to evaluate and reformulate classic social theories of production in light of the new spirit of capitalism, and present fieldwork with reality television casting personnel in which casters fail to achieve their industrial production goals.
Abstract: In this article, I argue that studies of media production should use grounded case studies in order to evaluate and reformulate classic social theories of production in light of the new spirit of capitalism. To wit, I present fieldwork with reality television casting personnel in which casters fail to achieve their industrial production goals. In this case, instances of failure may illustrate how the social concept of alienation is lived through processes of television production.
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26 Mar 2019
TL;DR: In this paper, an interdisciplinary analysis reveals how theatre participates in, and makes historical sense of, urban and economic change, and how companies converted spaces of manufacturing into spaces of theatrical production, and to what end.
Abstract: This original, interdisciplinary analysis reveals how theatre participates in, and makes historical sense of, urban and economic change. How have companies converted spaces of manufacturing into spaces of theatrical production, and to what end? How do these companies, along with municipal governments and developers, connect their work to the kind of work that occurred in these spaces in the past? How do those connections manifest in theatrical events, and how do such events give shape and meaning to ongoing redevelopment projects? Bringing together theatre historiography, performance theory, critical geography, and political economy, this book develops an understanding of the relationship between theatre and redevelopment that goes beyond accusations of gentrification or celebrations of radical resistance. Ultimately, this volume argues that deindustrialisation and redevelopment depend on the logics of theatre and performance: theatrical events and performative acts make such transformations intelligible and navigable.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on one subset of these disclosures, namely the figures relating to environmental expenditures and investments published by various organizations and highlight the ambiguous and imprecise nature of the outwardly accurate figures provided by the company.
Abstract: Purpose
Voluntary corporate social responsibility reporting has developed into an everyday activity for many commercial organizations, and scholarly interest in these practices continues to increase. This paper focusses on one subset of these disclosures, namely the figures relating to environmental expenditures and investments published by various organizations. The purpose of this paper is to provide insights into the nature, role and significance of such financial environmental information. Despite their seeming accuracy and preciseness, little is known about how such financial environmental information is constructed and subsequently used in organizational settings.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper is based on a qualitative case study focussing on a Finnish energy company. The authors build the investigation primarily on 26 semi-structured interviews with employees at all organizational levels, which the authors supplement with various documentary sources. The interpretation draws on the notion of loose coupling, which the authors use as a method theory to provide a better understanding of this complex organizational practice.
Findings
The authors highlight the ambiguous and imprecise nature of the outwardly accurate figures provided by the company. The authors argue that disclosed financial environmental information is only loosely coupled with various dimensions, including the organization’s actual activities, its environmental impacts and organizational decision making.
Originality/value
The findings contrast with those of some prior research, which has considered financial environmental information highly valuable. As for broader implications, the paper discusses the accuracy of public records based on such ambiguous organizational figures.
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Cites background from "The New Spirit of Capitalism"
...Accounting systems both embody evaluative principles (Annissette and Richardson, 2011) and are used as instruments in debates over legitimacy (Boltanski and Chiapello, 2005; Bourguignon and Chiapello, 2005)....
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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.
Abstract: Translator's Foreword: Pleasures of Philosophy Notes on the Translation and Acknowledgements Author's Note 1. Introduction: Rhizome 2. 1914: One or Several Wolves? 3. 10,000 BC: The Geology of Morals (Who Does the Earth Think It Is?) 4. November 20th, 1923: Postulates of Linguistics 5. 587BC-AD70: On Several Regimes of Signs 6. November 28th, 1947: How Do You Make Yourself a Body Without Organs? 7. Year Zero: Faciality 8. 1874: Three Novellas, or "What Happened?" 9. 1933: Micropolitics and Segmentarity 10. 1730: Becoming Intense, Becoming-Animal, Becoming Imperceptible... 11. 1837: Of the Refrain 12. 1227: Treatise on Nomadology - The War Machine 13. 7000BC: Apparatus of Capture 14. 1440: The Smooth and the Striated 15. Conclusion: Concrete Rules and Abstract Machines Notes Bibliography List of Illustrations Index
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01 Jan 2012
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.
Abstract: The 2008 crash has left all the established economic doctrines - equilibrium models, real business cycles, disequilibria models - in disarray. Part of the problem is due to Smith’s "veil of ignorance": individuals unknowingly pursue society’s interest and, as a result, have no clue as to the macroeconomic effects of their actions: witness the Keynes and Leontief multipliers, the concept of value added, fiat money, Engel’s law and technical progress, to name but a few of the macrofoundations of microeconomics. 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. Very simply, the banks, whose lending determined deposits after Roosevelt, and were a public service became private enterprises whose deposits determine lending. These underlay the great moderation preceding 2006, and the subsequent crash.
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01 Jan 1967
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.
Abstract: For the first time, Guy Debord's pivotal work Society of the Spectacle appears in a definitive and authoritative English translation. Originally published in France in 1967, Society of the Spectacle offered a set of radically new propositions about the nature of contemporary capitalism and modern culture. At the same time it was one of the most influential theoretical works for a wide range of political and revolutionary practice in the 1960s. Today, Debord's work continues to be in the forefront of debates about the fate of consumer society and the operation of modern social power. In a sweeping revision of Marxist categories, the notion of the spectacle takes the problem of the commodity from the sphere of economics to a point at which the commodity as an image dominates not only economic exchange but the primary communicative and symbolic activity of all modern societies.Guy Debord was one of the most important participants in the activities associated with the Situationist International in the 1960s. Also an artist and filmmaker, he is the author of Memoires and Commentaires sur la societe du spectacle. A Swerve Edition, distributed for Zone Books.
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01 Mar 1987
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.
Abstract: "Relevance Lost" 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. The book shows that modern corporations must work toward designing new management accounting systems that will assist managers more fully in their long-term planning. It is the winner of the American Accounting Association's Deloitte Haskins & Sells/Wildman Award Medal. It is also available in paperback: ISBN 0875842542.
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