Buch, Englisch, 284 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 441 g
Buch, Englisch, 284 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 441 g
ISBN: 978-1-78238-065-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Materielle Kultur, Wirtschaftsethnologie
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Finanzkrisen, Wirtschaftskrisen
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftssysteme, Wirtschaftsstrukturen
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Finanzkrisen
Weitere Infos & Material
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Investment Projects, Capitalism, and Crisis
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Cultural analysis of corporate and capitalist organization
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Hydro investment projects and the reproduction of relations
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At the crossroads of production and finance capital
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Contextualizing the study within Hydro
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Organization of the book
PART I. CONSTRUCTION AND CULTURES OF CREATION
Chapter 1. Situating “Global Corporate Management”
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Hydro’s ambiguous position
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Investment projects as “global assemblages”
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Economic anthropology revisited
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Managing man
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The neoliberal triumph and tragedy
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Extending anthropological discovering
Chapter 2. Managing in the Middle Kingdom: Three Investment Projects in China
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Technologies, art and truth
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Counterfeiting and strategic secrecy
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The GM relay
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The Mercedes and the carriage
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Circulating safety—dodging danger
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The carriage cum Mercedes
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Social organization and construction
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Reverse culture crash
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Cultural encounters
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From socio-technical to ontological truth
Chapter 3. Presencing Projects: A Social Reality of Construction
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The tragedy of big projects
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Keepers of gold and processes of “structuring”
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The ambience of enabling
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Projects as situated potentiality
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A set of propositions
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The imagination bank
PART II. HIGH FINANCE AND CONTEMPORARY CRISIS CAPITALISM
Chapter 4. The Turn to Enchantment: Investing in Projects
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Decision Gate Four
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CROGIism: Inventing finance control
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Blåruss-blues
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The surge of “shareholder value”
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“Scientific management”, collaboration and democratization
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Projects as a cultural idiom
Chapter 5. Wagging the Dog: The Financialization of Sociality
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Hydro’s financial transformation
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The “stock options carnival”
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“Options” in a moral economy
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A neoliberal dismantling of democratic capitalism?
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“Financial weapons of mass destruction”
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Managing “financial risk” in projects
Chapter 6. Money Manager Capitalism and Reverse Redistribution
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Financialization and international economic relations
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Qatalum “money magic”
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The dance of debt
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The “ancien régime” reinvented
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Financial neo-imperialism
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Radical reverse redistribution
PART III. IN GOOD COMPANY?
Chapter 7. Directors and Directions of Creation
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Reprise and review
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Hydro and the right kind of globalization
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Anti-market capitalism
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Financial entification
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Qualifying capitalism
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Incarnations of a different nature
Chapter 8. Managing in a Total Context of Crisis
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Managing, reasons and rationalizations
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Mixed regimes of rationality
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The medium-range view: Levels in capitalism
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Deep crisis in contemporary capitalism
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Downfall or a phoenix for the future?
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A tragedy or triumph of the commons?
Appendix
Bibliography
Index