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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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Narratives of neoliberalism: ‘clinical labour’ in context
TL;DR: Drawing on the first findings of a large-scale ethnographic research project into assisted reproduction in India, it is demonstrated that while the outsourcing and contractualisation of reproductive labour may be embedded in a wider neoliberal paradigm these practices cannot be understood nor their impacts be fully assessed in isolation from their social and cultural contexts.
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From ‘Post-Industrial’ to ‘Network Society’ and Beyond: The Political Conjunctures and Current Crisis of Information Society Theory
Marko Ampuja,Juha Koivisto +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the intellectual and conceptual shifts that have occurred in information society theories (and also policies) in the previous four decades and examine the topic by focusing on the work of Daniel Bell and Manuel Castells, arguably two of the most important information society theorists.
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Salvation, theology and organizational practices across the centuries
Bruno Dyck,Elden Wiebe +1 more
TL;DR: The authors provided an historical review of the relationship between salvation and organizational practices, paying particular attention to various views of salvation within the Western Christian tradition over the past two millennia, and described key changes in the meaning of salvation over time.
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One-way Europe? Institutional guidelines, emerging regimes of justification and paradoxical turns in European welfare capitalism
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the most relevant current transformations of the idea of the social in contemporary European welfare capitalism and their connections with the new spirit of capitalism, and argue that the currently dominant institutional regime of justification does not have a univocal, one-way fate of development.
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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.