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The New Spirit of Capitalism

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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.
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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.

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CSR Beyond Economy and Society : A Post-capitalist Approach

TL;DR: In this article, the authors draw on established views of CSR dysfunctionalities to show how and why CSR is regularly observed to be both shaped by and supportive of capitalism, and they present a post-capitalist approach to CSR that overcomes (1) the ill-defined separation of the economy and society, (2) the capitalist bias towards economic rationalities, and (3) the overidentification of society with its political system.
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Greening the Economy or Economizing the Green Project? When Environmental Concerns Are Turned into a Means to Save the Market

TL;DR: The green economy is fast becoming the new alpha and omega for many policy makers, corporations, political actors, and NGOs who want to tackle both the environmental and economic crisis at once as discussed by the authors.

A Critique of Immaterial Labour: Dublin's Independent Music Scene as a Strategic Site of Investigation

Susan Gill
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue for provisional adaptations to Hardt and Negri's immaterial labour, based on their concepts of self-valorisation, alienation, immeasurability and immanent cooperation.
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Socially responsible investing as a competitive strategy for trading companies in times of upheaval amid covid-19: Evidence from spain

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the impact of sustainable and responsible investing (SRI) on the performance of companies during a global crisis such as the COVID-19 crisis and found that companies that made donations had a higher performance index of more than 2 and 3 points over the companies that did not.
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Innovation society today: the reflexive creation of novelty

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a research framework that addresses the following key questions: How is novelty created reflexively, where can this process be observed, and which actors are driving it?
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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

Paolo Leon
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

Guy Debord
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.