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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 article, the relationship between aesthetics and morality is investigated, and the good and the beautiful, the bad and the ugly, happen in everyday life, how do these "orders of worth" in...
Abstract: This special issue investigates the relationship between aesthetics and morality. How do the good and the beautiful, the bad and the ugly, happen in everyday life? How do these ‘orders of worth’ in...
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...…have coined endless new terms: late modern, neoliberal, post-Fordist societies; informalized, meritocratic, egalitarian, consumer cultures; aesthetic, post-industrial, consumerist, service economies, all shaped by the ‘new spirit of capitalism’ (Boltanski and Chiapello, 2005; Littler, 2013)....
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TL;DR: The authors argues that a global crisis in capitalism that began in the early 1970s and peaked in the late 1990s pressured China, Japan, and South Korea to mobilize (and disenfranchise) their young demographics in their transitions from a developmental state model of economic growth toward a neoliberal model for economic management and governance.
Abstract: The departure point for this introduction is the proposition that youth unemployment and underemployment are not social anomalies, but they are the new faces of labor for youth in East Asia. This introductory essay argues that a global crisis in capitalism that began in the early 1970s and peaked in the late 1990s pressured China, Japan, and South Korea to mobilize (and disenfranchise) their young demographics in their transitions from a developmental state model of economic growth toward a neoliberal model of economic management and governance. As such, the essay argues, China, Japan, and South Korea gamble with the future of their younger population in order to secure their country’s place in neoliberal globalization. Further, the introduction reviews pertinent literature on the developmental state, neoliberalism, affective/emotional labor, and postcapitalist politics that the contributors engage in developing their arguments. Lastly, it offers an overview of the specific facets of youth unemployment and underemployment that the individual authors explore in their essays.
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TL;DR: The Civil Sphere, by Jeffrey C. Alexander, New York, Oxford University Press, 2006 xix+793 pp. (paperback), ISBN 0-19-516250-1 Jeff Alexander has written a major work of cultural and political soci...
Abstract: The Civil Sphere, by Jeffrey C. Alexander, New York, Oxford University Press, 2006 xix+793 pp. (paperback), ISBN 0-19-516250-1 Jeff Alexander has written a major work of cultural and political soci...
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01 Jan 2008
TL;DR: Continental philosophy is a term of art that brackets and divides a distinct group of writers as somehow different from some notional mainstream as mentioned in this paper, which is problematic in the field of business ethics.
Abstract: “Continental philosophy” – what is that? In the field of Business Ethics this particular term of art brackets and divides a distinct group of writers as somehow different from some notional mainstream. Anecdotal evidence suggests that mainstream Business Ethics is a parochial ghetto, intellectually dominated by a troika: of managerialism in the Business Schools (Parker 2002), of analytic philosophy and of law in the Universities (Ghoshal 2005; Preston 2002). Amongst such constituencies the influence, or even the contribution, of so-called continental authors may go unappreciated (Jones, Parker, & ten Bos 2005). Against this background and in the context of this volume, a fuller consideration of this categorically different literature is indicated. This chapter will first consider from different perspectives a range of discussions of this continental bracketing. These perspectives reveal that the continental adjudication is both exogenously derived – that is to say developed and perpetuated from outside the constituency it seeks to classify – and rationally inconsistent by normal epistemological criteria. A consideration of the mainstream or, as here, the classical approach to Business Ethics lends support to the symmetry of this potential dichotomy – continentals may not so-name themselves, but they clearly are not classical either. Dismissing any preconceived notions as a necessary precursor to innovating a Grounded Theory approach, I then consider and interpret an indicative range of continental writing pertinent to Business Ethics to what might account for this exaggerated and partial differentiation. Theoretical sampling of this work clearly diffuses particular dimensions of the continental distinction, some of which are inimical to classical Business Ethics practice. Consequent to this, I shall suggest that continental philosophy, so construed, might equally embrace strands of (for example) Kant, Berkeley, Paine and Adam Smith along with Levinas, Bauman, Derrida, Lyotard and Bourdieu. The chapter concludes that this renovated generic distinction would be more appropriately understood as any work inconvenient to, or critical of, classical (i.e. traditional), restrictive, instrumental determinism and
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...In a complementary continental conceptualisation of individual project management, the word project itself becomes a discursive instrument of sociological critique ( Boltanski & Chiapello 2006 ) ‐ the projectivity of classical management evolves as an aggressive viral mutation of Lyotard’s earlier performativity (1984)....
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...Thus, (and interpolating extensively here from Boltanski & Chiapello 2006, p.110 ) in the classical project of Business Ethics, the aim of all Business Ethics activity will be to generate more Business Ethics projects, or to achieve integration of one’s Business Ethics activity into the Business Ethics projects of others....
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08 Aug 2019
TL;DR: Chiapello and Gilbert as discussed by the authors present an unprecedented theoretical synthesis that will help managers, scholars and policy-makers to unpack the functional and dysfunctional roles and effects of management tools within and across organizations.
Abstract: No organization is immune from the influence of management tools. Such tools as norms, indicators, ranking, evaluation grids and management control systems have moved outside the managerial and consultancy realm within which they were first developed to reach public administrations and policy-makers, as well as a range of other governmental and non-governmental organizations. Taking management tools out of the practical and utilitarian contexts to which they are often consigned and approaching them from a social analytical perspective, this book gives primacy to these everyday objects that constitute the background of organizational life and remain too often unquestioned. Bringing together developing streams of research from anthropology, political science, social psychology, sociology, accounting, organisation theory and management, Eve Chiapello and Patrick Gilbert offer an unprecedented theoretical synthesis that will help managers, scholars and policy-makers to unpack the functional and dysfunctional roles and effects of management tools within and across organizations.
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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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