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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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Ethics of Resistance in Organisations: A Conceptual Proposal

TL;DR: In this paper, a conceptual proposal to analyse the ethics of resistance in organisations, drawing on Foucault's practising self as a refusal and Schaffer's ethics of freedom in opposition to the legitimacy of managerial control and the ethical of compliance, is presented.
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Consumers Faced With Telephone Selling: Metacognition, Resistance and Strategies

TL;DR: This paper explored individuals' perception of telephone selling and found that respondents' cognition of telesales and their pre-existing schemas when faced by this type of influence, the way in which their metacognition is constructed over time, the strategies they adopt and the levels of resistance these reveal; and the individual and situational factors that possibly moderate their reactions.
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The creeping influence of consultants on cities: McKinsey’s involvement in Berlin’s urban economic and social policies

TL;DR: The involvement of management consultants in contemporary urban policymaking exemplifies how experts exercise political influence as discussed by the authors, and the processes of expert-driven local decision-making as mechanisms of concentrating urban political powers that are simultaneously endorsed and contested.
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Vulnerability of the ‘Entrepreneurial Self’: Analysing the Interplay between Labour Markets and Social Policy

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue for an understanding of vulnerability that is sensitive to the importance of wage-labour, and outline how changes in labour markets due to the ongoing crisis of contemporary capitalism create vulnerability and assess how social policies contribute as well as attempt to respond to these vulnerabilities with ambivalent outcomes.
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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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Paolo Leon
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The Society of the Spectacle

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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.