How people and organizations create and manage excess
E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten, EPUB
ISBN: 978-91-984698-2-0
Verlag: Manchester University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
of overflows and the management of overflows, in the sense of either controlling or coping with them. Individual chapters show the management of overflows taking place in various social settings, periods and political contexts. This includes attempts by states to manage future consumption overflow in post-war Easter European, contemporary economies of sharing, managing overflow in health care administration, overflow problems in mass travel and migration, overflow in digital services and the overflow that scholars face in dealing with an abundance of publications.
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Introduction – Orvar Löfgren and Barbara Czarniawska 1 Consumer and consumerism under state socialism: demand-side abundance and its discontents in Hungary during the long 1960s – György Péteri 2 Metamorphoses, or how self-storage turned from homes into hotels – Helene Brembeck 3 Moving in a sea of strangers: handling urban overflows – Orvar Löfgren 4 Too much happens in the workplace – Karolina J. Dudek 5 Just like any other business or a special case? Framing excess in a Swedish newspaper group – Elena Raviola 6 Overflowing with uncertainty: controversies regarding epistemic wagers in climate-economy models – Jonathan Metzger 7 More means less: managing overflow in science publishing – Sabina Siebert, Robert Insall, and Laura M. Machesky 8 Guides and an overflow of choices – Lars Norén and Agneta Ranerup 9 Virtual red tape, or digital v. paper bureaucracy – Barbara Czarniawska Afterword: a surplus of ideas – Richard Wilk References Index
