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The New Spirit of Capitalism
Luc Boltanski,Eve Chiapello +1 more
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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.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.read more
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Ideology in Management Studies
TL;DR: In this paper, a systematic review of how ideology has been conceptualized in management studies is presented, which explores its diverse and changing meanings in order to develop and sustain the concept.
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Developing the “Good Citizen”: Digital Artifacts, Peer Networks, and Formal Organization During the 2003–2004 Howard Dean Campaign
TL;DR: The 2003-2004 Howard Dean campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination is often heralded as the prototypical example of peer-driven politics as mentioned in this paper, and from the earliest days of the primary the campaign developed strategies and innovative organizational practices for convening and harnessing citizen networks.
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A pluralist and pragmatist critique of food regime’s genealogy: varieties of social orders in Brazilian agriculture
TL;DR: The food regime approach occupies a privileged place in the sociology of agriculture and food, however, it is criticized for its structural, universalist and homogenizing bias as discussed by the authors, and an alternative framework constructed from the social order concept, which defines the existence of different arrangements of practices related to socio-technical and institutional apparatuses.
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The Naked Manager: The Ethical Practice of an Anti-establishment Boss
TL;DR: In this article, an analysis of video material produced by the film company Zentropa about their apparently eccentric Managing Director, Peter Aalbaek, is presented, which foregrounds the managerial body as a signifier in its own right.
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Humanism after posthumanism: or qualitative psychology after the “posts”
TL;DR: The authors introduce the posthuman and postqualitative critique of conventional qualitative research with an eye to its relevance for psychology, and introduce a distinction between ontological and advocacy issues concerning the post qualitative critique in order to propose the idea that qualitative psychologists can accept much of the ontological theorizing developed by posthuman scholars, and yet advocate a humanist agenda for both scientific and ethical reasons.
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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
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
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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.