An Ethnography of Management and the Global Economy in Crisis
E-Book, Englisch, 284 Seiten, EPUB
ISBN: 978-0-85745-186-6
Verlag: Berghahn Books
Format: EPUB
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Autoren/Hrsg.
Weitere Infos & Material
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Investment Projects, Capitalism, and Crisis
Cultural analysis of corporate and capitalist organization
Hydro investment projects and the reproduction of relations
At the crossroads of production and finance capital
Contextualizing the study within Hydro
Organization of the book
PART I. CONSTRUCTION AND CULTURES OF CREATION
Chapter 1. Situating “Global Corporate Management”
Hydro’s ambiguous position
Investment projects as “global assemblages”
Economic anthropology revisited
Managing man
The neoliberal triumph and tragedy
Extending anthropological discovering
Chapter 2. Managing in the Middle Kingdom: Three Investment Projects in China
Technologies, art and truth
Counterfeiting and strategic secrecy
The GM relay
The Mercedes and the carriage
Circulating safety—dodging danger
The carriage cum Mercedes
Social organization and construction
Reverse culture crash
Cultural encounters
From socio-technical to ontological truth
Chapter 3. Presencing Projects: A Social Reality of Construction
The tragedy of big projects
Keepers of gold and processes of “structuring”
The ambience of enabling
Projects as situated potentiality
A set of propositions
The imagination bank
PART II. HIGH FINANCE AND CONTEMPORARY CRISIS CAPITALISM
Chapter 4. The Turn to Enchantment: Investing in Projects
Decision Gate Four
CROGIism: Inventing finance control
Blåruss-blues
The surge of “shareholder value”
“Scientific management”, collaboration and democratization
Projects as a cultural idiom
Chapter 5. Wagging the Dog: The Financialization of Sociality
Hydro’s financial transformation
The “stock options carnival”
“Options” in a moral economy
A neoliberal dismantling of democratic capitalism?
“Financial weapons of mass destruction”
Managing “financial risk” in projects
Chapter 6. Money Manager Capitalism and Reverse Redistribution
Financialization and international economic relations
Qatalum “money magic”
The dance of debt
The “ancien régime” reinvented
Financial neo-imperialism
Radical reverse redistribution
PART III. IN GOOD COMPANY?
Chapter 7. Directors and Directions of Creation
Reprise and review
Hydro and the right kind of globalization
Anti-market capitalism
Financial entification
Qualifying capitalism
Incarnations of a different nature
Chapter 8. Managing in a Total Context of Crisis
Managing, reasons and rationalizations
Mixed regimes of rationality
The medium-range view: Levels in capitalism
Deep crisis in contemporary capitalism
Downfall or a phoenix for the future?
A tragedy or triumph of the commons?
Appendix
Bibliography
Index