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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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Six theories of Neoliberalism
TL;DR: This paper provided a taxonomy of uses of the term neoliberalism to include: (1) an all-purpose denunciatory category; (2) ''the way things are''; (3) an institutional framework characterizing particular forms of national capitalism, most notably the Anglo-American ones; (4) a dominant ideology of global capitalism; (5) a form of governmentality and hegemony; and (6) a variant within the broad framework of liberalism as both theory and policy discourse.
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Politicizing the expertise of the accounting industry in the realm of corporate social responsibility
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the mediating role of accounting firms and professional bodies in aligning the socially responsible practices of organizations with the rational morality of the market, and show that the construction of market as a moral marker of socially responsible action is the result of a major effort of rationalization aimed at justifying the emergence of a social and moral conscience in business.
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Adam Smith and the Character of Virtue
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the what and how of TMS VI and discuss the problem of commerce and corruption and the solution of moral philosophy, which is the basis of our work.
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Mind the Gap: The Commodification of Corporate Social Responsibility
TL;DR: In this article, an ethnographic account of a nonprofit organization that promotes the idea of corporate social responsibility is presented, based on two years of participant observation, in-depth interviews, and informal exchanges.
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Beyond a subjective theory of value and towards a ‘fair price’: an organizational perspective on Fairtrade minimum price setting
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore Fairtrade minimum price setting as an organizational formulation of a critical response to economic liberalism and its underlying notion of value, and show what happens if such meta-level philosophical debates on fairness and markets are lived out organizationally.
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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.