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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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Changing relations in global environmental change
Nora Räthzel,David Uzzell +1 more
TL;DR: Rathzel et al. as discussed by the authors conducted a cross-national pilot study in Sweden and the UK examining young people's environmental concerns and their perceptions of the causes and solutions, and found that evaluations of environmental degradation are partly contingent upon the manner in which questions are framed leading to quite different interpretations of the findings.
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Futures of sustainability as modernization, transformation, and control: a conceptual framework
Frank Adloff,Sighard Neckel +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a conceptional framework uses the theoretical concepts of imaginaries, practices, and structures to study the possible futures of sustainability, specifically modernization, transformation, and control, as well as possible interdependencies between these developments.
Negotiating Competitiveness Agendas in Costa Rica and Nicaragua
TL;DR: In this article, the authors place the agenda of competitiveness in the context of political struggle and explore articulations and legitimacy claims of business associations and labor organizations respectively in processes of labor market flexibilization and economic change.
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Promotional Ubiquitous Musics: Recording Artists, Brands, and “Rendering Authenticity”
TL;DR: The authors examines the permeation of mainstream media and commercial spaces by music whose intent is not only to promote its artist, but also a sponsoring brand, and argues that the shift toward licensing original songs by recording artists is consistent with brands' increasing efforts to speak to consumer identities in a manner perceived as "authentic".
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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.