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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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Culture, technology, and process in ‘media theories’: Toward a shift in the understanding of media in organizational research:
Florian Hoof,Sebastian K. Boell +1 more
TL;DR: The concept of media can provide an anchor point for developing organizational theories about information and communication technologies, materiality, communication, and organizational change as mentioned in this paper, and it can be used as a metaphor for organizational change.
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Dynamics of corporate social responsability: towards a new 'conception of control'?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that corporate social responsibility has given rise to a new "conception of control", which they term "shareholder-CSR compatible", which reflects how governance changes when environmental and societal responsibilities are combined with responsibility to shareholders.
Critical Programming: Toward a Philosophy of Computing
TL;DR: A theoretical framework to focus on the phenomenology of software and code is offered, joining social critiques with textuality and media studies, the former proposing that theory be done and the latter suggesting that theory should be done slowly.
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Entrepreneurial Justice: The New Spirit of Capitalism in Emerging India
Paula Chakravartty,Sreela Sarkar +1 more
TL;DR: The authors consider how these counter-cultural transformations that shaped new management thinking in Europe and North America traveled to places such as India, where neo-liberal economic reforms led to economic growth alongside unprecedented suffering, and see the growing prominence of India's own "cool capitalists" in the figures of Rajat Gupta and Aamir Khan.
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Boundaries of the New: American Classical Music at the Turn of the Millennium
Judith Lochhead,Andrea Moore,Marianna Ritchey,Judy Lochhead,John R. Pippen,Anne C. Shreffler +5 more
TL;DR: Humphrey as discussed by the authors examines the music and career of composer Tan Dun around the turn of the millennium, arguing that his market strategy combined performances of cultural particularity with appeals to old ideas about classical music's universalism, which was apparent in his music, which shared aesthetic qualities with both New Age and world music, and in his rhetoric, where he consistently claimed to operate beyond both generic and national boundaries.
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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.