Provides a unique ethnography of "global management". One of the few in-depth ethnographies addressing the current financial and economic crisis. Unique in the way it provides an ethnographic extended case study, extending out of the field from corporate managerial practices to the global capitalist system in crisis, from communicative interactions at the "micro" level, to structural processes and "forces" at the macro level. Provides a unique holistic treatment of pressing issues of global political economy and society.
Provides a unique ethnography of "global management". One of the few in-depth ethnographies addressing the current financial and economic crisis. Unique in the way it provides an ethnographic extended case study, extending out of the field from corporate managerial practices to the global capitalist system in crisis, from communicative interactions at the "micro" level, to structural processes and "forces" at the macro level. Provides a unique holistic treatment of pressing issues of global political economy and society.
Emil A. Røyrvik is a social anthropologist and senior research scientist at SINTEF Technology and Society, Scandinavia's largest independent research organization. The book has been written also in his capacity as postdoctoral fellow at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Department of Social Anthropology. His research focuses on ethnography and anthropological theory in the context of knowledge work, organizational and managerial culture, and aspects of contemporary economic and cultural globalization.
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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
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
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