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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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Social capital, double embeddedness, and mechanisms of stability and change*
TL;DR: In this paper, double embeddedness is defined as the two-sided nature of communities, markets, and organizations, where social, political, and economic actions are embedded in social structure and culture.
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Faithful knowledges: the mediation of plural collectives in an interfaith charity
TL;DR: Woodhead et al. as discussed by the authors present an organisational ethnography of London-based interfaith charity 3FF (Three Faiths Forum), with whom the author conducted two and half years of fieldwork as part of an ESRC collaborative studentship.
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Why Social Relations Matter for Politics and Successful Societies
Peter A. Hall,Michèle Lamont +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that social actors should be seen as relational entities embedded in social and cultural structures that connect them to others in multifaceted ways, and that understanding those relationships requires a deeper understanding of how institutional and cultural frameworks interact to condition the terrain for social action.
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Personalisation: the nostalgic revival of child‐centred education?
TL;DR: Personalisation is an emerging "movement" within education as mentioned in this paper, which can refer either to a new mode of governance for the public services, or it qualifies the noun 'learning' as in 'personalised learning'.
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Pathways to meaning: a new approach to studying emotions at work.
TL;DR: A university hospital that has tried to create a more meaningful and emotionally rewarding work environment for its nursing staff is examined, and findings show that employees can embrace the same corporate‐sanctioned meaning under different sets of conditions and with different emotional consequences.
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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.