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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 Contradictions of Contemporary Social Work: An Ironic Response
Martyn Higgins,Annabel Goodyer +1 more
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Creative precarity? Young fashion designers as entrepreneurs in Russia
Olga Gurova,Daria Morozova +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the careers of young fashion designers as entrepreneurs in Russia, and discuss entrepreneurial experiences and labour practices of fashion designers in the context of precari....
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Good residents, bad residents: How participatory processes in urban redevelopment privilege entrepreneurial citizens
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze cases through the concept of "pragmatic registers" and show how residents, developers and civil servants can bend citizen participation and its material arrangements from workshops and public meetings to contracts and policy documents.
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Globalisation and Individuals: The Political Economy of South Korea's Educational Expansion
TL;DR: The transition in Korea, however, is incomplete, leading to a combined system with complex criteria used by firms and universities to select applicants as discussed by the authors, which absorbs significant social and economic resources.
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Ideology at work: Ambiguity and irony of value-based management in Bang & Olufsen
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that much of the attraction of value-based management lies in the double-edged semantics of the word "value" and its promise to accommodate economic bottom-line value and deep-seated moral and aesthetic values.
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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.