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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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Conceptualising Social Value: Perspectives of the Public, Private and Third Sectors in the UK
TL;DR: In this article, a qualitative approach was taken to study the concept of social value within the UK society and interviewed individuals creating social value in the UK to understand the process of Social Value creation, which includes individual and collaborative responses, resource mobilisation and impact on social value creation.
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A theory of capitalist co-optation of radical alternatives: The case of Islamic banking industry:
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use the critical theory literature to describe the processes of co-optation by which capitalism engages with its radical alternatives in order to subvert their emancipatory power.
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Constructing entrepreneurial markets for innovations: the emergence of e-commerce entrepreneurship in the south of England
TL;DR: Actor-network theory (ANT) was employed as a research approach to study an ecommerce community across two English counties, using ethnographic methods to collect data via participant observation, interviews, and documents between 2006 and 2010.
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‘Theories are made only to die in the war of time’: Guy Debord and the Situationist International as strategic thinkers
TL;DR: The Situationist International (SI) has been one of the main reference points within social movement organizing, cultural studies, social theory and philosophy as mentioned in this paper, but little attention has been paid to the specifically strategic dimension of their thought and practice.
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What’s so critical about Critical Neuroscience? Rethinking experiment, enacting critique
TL;DR: This paper argues that limiting enactments of critique to the invocation of context misses the force of what a highly-stylized and tightly-bound neuroscientific experiment can actually do, and suggests that, in the midst of large-scale neuroscientific initiatives, it may be “experiment’, and not “context”, that forms the meeting-ground between neuro-biological and socio-political research practices.
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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.