New Spirits of Capitalism?

Crises, Justifications, and Dynamics
Herausgeber: Du Gay, Paul; Morgan, Glenn

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the nature and effects of contemporary capitalism through engaging with Boltanski and Chiapello's seminal text, The New Spirit of Capitalism. It provides a comprehensive overview and interrogation of the text and develops new insights into contemporary neo-liberal or 'financialized' capitalism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780198708834
• ISBN-10: 0198708831
• Artikelnr.: 47866695

Autorenporträt

Paul du Gay is Professor of Organization Studies in the Department of Organization (IOA) at Copenhagen Business School (CBS). His work is located in the sociology of organizational life and cultural studies. His publications include Consumption and Identity at Work, In Praise of Bureaucracy, and Organizing Identity. He is currently writing a monograph for Routledge entitled For State Service: Office as a Vocation, and editing The Oxford Handbook of Sociology, Social Theory, and Organization Studies: Contemporary Currents (with Paul Adler, Glenn Morgan, and Mike Reed). At CBS, he directs the Velux research programme, What Makes Organization?, and co-directs the Business in Society Public-Private Platform. Glenn Morgan is Professor of International Management at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University. His research focuses on different forms of capitalism, the impact of globalization and neo-liberalism, and the changing nature of firms and organizations. From 2005-2008, he was Editor in Chief of the journal Organization: The Critical Journal of Theory, Organization and Society. Recent edited books include Capitalism and Capitalisms in the Twenty-First Century (OUP 2012; edited with R. Whitley) and The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Institutional Analysis (OUP 2010; edited with J.L. Campbell, C. Crouch, O.K. Pedersen and R. Whitley).

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Paul du Gay and Glenn Morgan: Understanding Capitalism: Crises,
Legitimacy and Change through the Prism of The New Spirit of
Capitalism
* Section 1: New Spirits of Capitalism: Developments and Critique
* 2: Luc Boltanski: A Journey through French-style Critique
* 3: Eve Chiapello: Capitalism and its Criticisms
* 4: Paul du Gay: Notes on Aspects of the Conceptual Architecture of
the New Spirit : Weber and Hirschman
* 5: Hugh Willmott: Spirited Away: When Political Economy becomes
Culturalized
* 6: Martin Parker: Beyond Justification: Dietrologic and the Sociology
of Critique
* 7: Nigel Thrift: The Insubstantial Pageant: Producing an Untoward
Land
* Section 2 Applications: the Changing Nature of Capitalism, Work, and
Organizations in the Public and Private Sectors
* 8: Isabelle Huault and Hélène Rainelli-Weiss: The Connexionist Nature
of Modern Financial Markets: From a Domination to a Justice Order?
* 9: Peer Hull Kristensen: The Distinctiveness of Nordic Welfare States
in the Transformation to the Projective City and the New Spirits of
Capitalism
* 10: Silke Ötsch, Pier Paolo Pasqualoni and Alan Scott: From New
Spirit to New Steel-Hard Housing? Civil Society Actors, Capitalism
and Crisis: The Case of Attac in Europe
* 11: Kathia Serrano-Velarde: Benchmarking for the Greater Good? The
New Investment Paradigm in European Higher Education
* 12: Paul du Gay: New Spirits of Public Management Post Bureaucracy
* 13: Susanne Ekman: Authenticity at Work: Questioning the New Spirit
of Capitalism from a Micro-Sociological Perspective