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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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The negation of hierarchy and its consequences
TL;DR: The authors traces the large-scale abandonment of hierarchical models of society by human scientists in the aftermath of the 1968 U.S. civil rights movement, emphasizing the need for contractual an...
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Core task and organizational reality
TL;DR: The authors argue that the field of organization studies has adopted an increasingly general and metaphysical vocabulary to guide and frame its analyses of life and dynamics in organizations, and argue that this altered focus and vocabulary is accompanied by a diminished ability to specify and intervene into the practical reality of organizations.
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From Nudge to Culture and Back Again: Coalface Governance in the Regulated Organization
Ruthanne Huising,Susan S. Silbey +1 more
TL;DR: The range of organizational responses to regulatory requirements is often explained by describing the organization as a monolithic actor interacting with external agents as discussed by the authors, which is not the case in our case.
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The transformation of our conduct of life : One aspect of the three epochs of Western modernity
TL;DR: In this article, a concept of structural transformation is worked out and applied on the history of modernity, which involves a distinction between abstract modernity and epochs of realized modernities.
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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
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.