Kimberly ChongBest Practice
Management Consulting and the Ethics of Financialization in China
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
1. High Performers: The Making of Financialized Subjects 35
2. Evaluating Humans: Financial Rationality and Practices of
Performance-Related Pay 64
3. Reducing Costs: Shared Service Centers, Labor, and the Outsourcing
Rationale 91
4. Training Value: The Moral and Political Project of Selling Consultancy
110
5. Client Sites: Liminality, Modernity, and Performances of Expertise 131
6. Building a Paradise: Post-Mao Visions of Transformation 151
7. Conspicuous Ethicizing: Corporate Culture, CSR, and Corporate
Subjectivity 172
Conclusion 193
Notes 203
References 221
Index 241
