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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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Affect and biopower: towards a politics of life
TL;DR: The authors argue that understanding how forms of biopower work through affect requires attending to three relations: affective relations and capacities are object-targets for discipline, biopolitics, security, and environmentality; affective life is the outside through which new ways of living may emerge; and specific collective affects (including state-phobia) are part of the conditions for the birth of forms of Biopower.
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An Essay on the Growing Contribution of Economic Markets to the Proliferation of the Social
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide analytical tools for understanding why and how economic markets are becoming a growing source of political issues, with particular emphasis on the establishment of a new innovation regime and the growing role of certain scientific disciplines and technologies.
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Looking for work in creative industries policy
Mark Banks,David Hesmondhalgh +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors outline and account for the utopian description of work in much UK creative industries discourse, and offer a contrasting assessment that shows how creative workplaces are marked significantly by insecurity, inequality and exploitation (including self-exploitation).
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Analysing global economic organization: embedded networks and global chains compared
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the network epistemologies that underlie several frameworks for studying global economic organization and contrast the embedded network as a trust-based governance structure with the construct of the global commodity chain, which understands network governance in terms of power relations or "drivenness".
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Power in Management and Organization Science
Peter Fleming,André Spicer +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a framework that identifies four faces of power (i.e., coercion, manipulation, domination, and subjectification) and four sites of power, i.e. power enacted "in", "through", "over", and "against" organizations.
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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.