The end of bureaucracy has been anticipated many times throughout the history of management science as well as in modern social and political theory. This book sets out to show why bureaucracy persists and what values it embodies and upholds. Thus the book seeks to show how and why bureaucratic forms of organization have played, and continue to play, a vital and productive role in ordering our political, social, economic and cultural existence. This book also describes and analyzes the impact of contemporary programs of organizational reform in the public and private sectors on bureaucratic...
The end of bureaucracy has been anticipated many times throughout the history of management science as well as in modern social and political theory. ...
Offers a novel understanding of relations between the economic and the cultural. This text shows how cultural products are produced, marketed and sold in an increasingly global economy. It illustrates that contemporary cultural goods and services are inextricably bound up with economic processes of production, circulation and exchange.
Offers a novel understanding of relations between the economic and the cultural. This text shows how cultural products are produced, marketed and sold...
Phrases such as "corporate culture," "market culture" and the "knowledge economy," have now become familiar clarion calls in the world of work. They are calls that have echoed through organizations and markets. Clearly something is happening to the ways markets and organizations are being represented and intervened in and this signals a need to reassess their very constitution. In particular, the once clean divide that placed the economy, dealt with mainly by economists, on one side, and culture, addressed chiefly by those in anthropology, sociology and the other "cultural sciences," on...
Phrases such as "corporate culture," "market culture" and the "knowledge economy," have now become familiar clarion calls in the world of work. The...
This series is dedicated to an understanding of cultural studies' as an interdisciplinary project concerned with the analysis of meaning. It focuses attention on the importance of the contemporary cultural turn' in forging a rethink of the centrality of the cultural' and the articulation between the material and the symbolic.
This series is dedicated to an understanding of cultural studies' as an interdisciplinary project concerned with the analysis of meaning. It focuses a...
'This ability to raise so many interesting themes and questions is one of the strengths of this Reader. Another is a choice of contributions that enables us to trace some of the main threads in the debate over identity...an invaluable tool for scholars in the field' - Discourse & Society
'This ability to raise so many interesting themes and questions is one of the strengths of this Reader. Another is a choice of contributions that enab...
This book makes a significant contribution to cultural economic approaches to organizational and economic life. Specifically it offers both a survey of the field, as well as a practical guide to doing 'cultural economy'. The text, which builds upon du Gay's earlier work, will engage with a range of debates from cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, geography, and management. It brings du Gay's style and originality to bear on the subject of culture and economy, and results in a book that will once more make a solid contribution to cultural studies.
This book makes a significant contribution to cultural economic approaches to organizational and economic life. Specifically it offers both a survey o...
This book makes a significant contribution to cultural economic approaches to organizational and economic life. Specifically it offers both a survey of the field, as well as a practical guide to doing 'cultural economy'. The text, which builds upon du Gay's earlier work, will engage with a range of debates from cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, geography, and management. It brings du Gay's style and originality to bear on the subject of culture and economy, and results in a book that will once more make a solid contribution to cultural studies.
This book makes a significant contribution to cultural economic approaches to organizational and economic life. Specifically it offers both a survey o...
Whilst undoubtedly one of the most controversial but also most established issues in research and debate within the contemporary social and human sciences, as well as in cultural studies, work on 'identity' has undergone dramatic changes in recent years. The aim of this book is to provide a detailed analysis of those changes, by confronting the impact of both substantive challenges, concerning globalization, individualization and commodification, for instance, and theoretical developments, from within post-structuralism, psychoanalysis and post-feminism, for example, upon conceptions and...
Whilst undoubtedly one of the most controversial but also most established issues in research and debate within the contemporary social and human scie...
Over the last three decades the idea of the state and the ideals of the state service have been subject to extensive and near constant political, ideological and theoretical criticism. The book seeks to counter these criticisms by offering a positive account of the state and of the conducts informing the unique activities it undertakes. It addresses this endeavour through a combination of historically informed conceptual analysis and detailed empirical description. The state, it is argued, maintains its distinctive character because of the singularity of its object. That object is the...
Over the last three decades the idea of the state and the ideals of the state service have been subject to extensive and near constant political, i...
