The Allure of Capitalism : : An Ethnography of Management and the Global Economy in Crisis /

The Allure of Capitalism : : An Ethnography of Management and the Global Economy in Crisis / / Emil A. Røyrvik.

The “managerial revolution,” or the rise of management as a distinct and vital group in industrial society, might be identified as a major development of the modernization processes, similar to the scientific and industrial revolutions. Studying “transnational” or “global” corporate management at th...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Røyrvik, Emil A.,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (284 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FIGURES
  • TABLES
  • PREFACE
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • Introduction INVESTMENT PROJECTS, CAPITALISM, AND CRISIS
  • Part I CONSTRUCTION AND CULTURES OF CREATION
  • Chapter 1 SITUATING “GLOBAL CORPORATE MANAGEMENT”
  • Chapter 2 MANAGING IN THE MIDDLE KINGDOM Three Investment Projects in China
  • Chapter 3 PRESENCING PROJECTS A Social Reality of Construction
  • Part II HIGH FINANCE AND CONTEMPORARY CRISIS CAPITALISM
  • Chapter 4 THE TURN TO ENCHANTMENT Investing in Projects
  • Chapter 5 WAGGING THE DOG The Financialization of Sociality
  • Chapter 6 MONEY MANAGER CAPITALISM AND REVERSE REDISTRIBUTION
  • Part III IN GOOD COMPANY?
  • Chapter 7 DIRECTORS AND DIRECTIONS OF CREATION
  • Chapter 8 MANAGING IN A TOTAL CONTEXT OF CRISIS
  • Appendix “SYSTEMIC CYCLES OF ACCUMULATION” AND TECHNO-ECONOMIC PARADIGMS
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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