The allure of capitalism [[electronic resource] ] : an ethnography of management and the global economy in crisis / / by Emil A. Røyrvik

• Autore: Røyrvik Emil A
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Berghahn Books, 2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (300 p.)
• Disciplina: 658
• Soggetto topico: Economic policy; Industrial management; International finance; Financial crises
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Situating "global corporate management" -- Managing in the middle kingdom : three investment projects in China -- Presencing projects : a social reality of construction -- High finance and contemporary crisis capitalism -- The turn to enchantment : investing in projects -- Wagging the dog : the financialization of sociality -- Money manager capitalism and reverse redistribution -- In good company? -- Directors and directions of creation -- Managing in a total context of crisis.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 the post-millennium moment provides a suitable focal point from which to investigate globalized (post)modernity and capitalism especially, and as such this book offers an anthropology of global capitalism at its moment of crisis. This study provides ethnographically rich descriptions of managerial
• Titolo autorizzato: The allure of capitalism
• ISBN: 1-283-32642-6; 9786613326423; 0-85745-185-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910457666203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II