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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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Who has been regulating whom, business or society? The mid-20th-century institutionalization of ‘corporate responsibility’ in the USA
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a historical-sociological perspective on contemporary, globalized "corporate responsibility" by exploring a critical moment in the evolution of this institution, in mid-20th-century USA.
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Political Performance: A Framework for Analysing Democratic Politics
TL;DR: In this paper, a framework is developed to examine the co-constitutive nature of performance and politics and to suggest that such a framework was critical to promoting an interdisciplinary approach to understand our complex political world.
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Education in the Liquid-Modern Setting
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors capture the uncertainty, even if only momentarily, of liquid-modern culture to give some purchase to the questions education and education education and edu..., but the present change is not like past changes and the art of living in a world over-saturated with information has yet to be learned.
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Mind Invasion: Situated Affectivity and the Corporate Life Hack.
TL;DR: It is argued that this narrow focus on cases that fit a “user/resource model” tends to channel attention away from more complex and also more problematic instances of situated affectivity, including affective patterns prevalent in today's corporate workplace.
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Foundations of Project Management Research: An Explicit and Six-Facet Ontological Framework
Abstract: This article proposes a new, explicit, and integrated ontological framework to stimulate project management research. It suggests that the ontological question should be viewed as a six-facet diamo...
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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.