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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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Learning After ‘New Institutionalism’: Democracy and Tate Modern Public Programme

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the failure of the curatorial discourse of New Institutionalism in relation to the Public Programme at Tate Modern and show how learning activities in Tate Modern continued to deploy the values of New institutionalism (in particular, those of dialogue and participation) long after its failure and decline.
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Discursive Legitimation of a Contested Actor Over Time: The Multinational Corporation as a Historical Case (1964–2012)

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify and situate the different multinational corporation-related controversies and discursive legitimation strategies in their specific historical context, and propose that, over time, the nature of discursive legitimacy changes and introduce "discursive antagonism" and 'discursive co-optation" as two different forms of legitimation.
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Planetary Silicon Valley: Deconstructing New York’s innovation complex

TL;DR: The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the use of digital platforms and software for operating remotely and encouraged employers to reshape the workplace for social distancing as discussed by the authors. But it is not at all...
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Distant readings: anthropology of organizations through novels

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors call for the development of anthropologies of organization through "distant reading" of novels and discuss the benefits of such readings for scholars and students within the discipline of organization studies.
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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.