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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 production of subjects and everyday life in neoliberal capitalism
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the neoliberalisation of subjectivity and everyday life is central to neoliberalism's embeddedness, and argue that neoliberal discourse and practices shape our working lives, both in and outside of formal work settings.
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Feeling Our Way: An ethnographic exploration of university staff experiences of ‘soft skills’ learning and development programmes
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used autoethnography to explore staff experiences of learning and development programs (LDPs) within one higher education setting, and found that LDPs offer and fulfill practical and affective functions.
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The construction of the disaster and the “privatization” of mining regulation: reflections on the tragedy of the rio doce basin, brazil
TL;DR: In this paper, the Samarco/Vale/BHP Billiton disaster highlights the relations between State, market and civil society and the rearrangement of environmental regulation of the mining industry in Brazil.
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Exploitation, Exploration and Exaltation: Notes on a Metaphysical (Re)turn to 'One Best Way of Organizing'
TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight some of the problems attendant upon the return of metaphysics to the field of organizational analysis, and the peculiar re-emergence of a one best way of organizing that it engenders.
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The Pleasure and Pain of Visualizing Data in Times of Data Power
Helen Kennedy,Rosemary Lucy Hill +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the desire to visualize unfolds in the context of a complex entanglement of (1) the data, and (2) the information itself.
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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.