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The New Spirit of Capitalism

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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.
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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.

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Exploring the Shaping of Markets through Controversies Methodological Propositions for Macromarketing Studies

TL;DR: In this article, the authors define controversies as dispute processes during the negotiation process during a transaction. But they do not define a dispute process as a disagreement process during the execution of the transaction.
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The commodification of the personal: labour market demands in the era of neoliberal postindustrialization

TL;DR: In this article, the authors take as their point of departure the observation that contemporary labour markets of highly developed capitalism have witnessed a new and profound focus on personal traits and characteristics such as social skills.
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Education for a Post-Work Future: Automation, Precarity, and Stagnation

TL;DR: The authors argue that narrow human capital models reduce the capacity of formal education to creatively meet the expansive challenges immanent to a potential post-work landscape by circumscribing the innovative potential of education, knowledge, and subjectivity.
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Gender and Labour in New Times: An Introduction

TL;DR: In this paper, a special issue is concerned with Gender and labour in new times, confronting transformations to the economy and how such transformations are entangled with gender and labour, especially financialised post-Fordist economies.
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Accounting for State Intervention: The Social Histories of “Beneficiaries”

TL;DR: The authors examined the transformation of the state through a focus on the visions implied in tools and practices of results-based management in state bureaucracies, and examined the ways in which the state constructs aggregates of the population as a whole.
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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

Paolo Leon
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

Guy Debord
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.