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Les profondes transformations des entreprises sont au cœur de celles du capitalisme mondial depuis les années 1980. Elles ont conduit à la désagrégation de la firme " chandlérienne ", forme dominante de la grande entreprise pendant la plus grande partie du XXe siècle. Dans cet essai, Olivier Weinstein présente de façon précise et accessible les aspects majeurs de ces mutations et les questions qu'elles soulèvent. Première évolution : la financiarisation et les transformations de la gouvernance d'entreprise. Est-on passé d'un capitalisme managérial à un capitalisme financier? Comment cela se traduit-il en termes de configurations du pouvoir et d'orientations des comportements d'entreprise? Deuxième évolution : les transformations des systèmes de production, de management et des formes d'organisation industrielle. Troisième évolution : les transformations liées à la montée de l'" économie fondée sur la connaissance ", c'est-à-dire la recomposition des modes de production et de circulation des connaissances et compétences scientifiques et technologiques, et ses implications sur les structures et stratégies d'entreprise. Ce livre s'inscrit dans une perspective longue, revenant sur la formation de l'entreprise capitaliste moderne au XIXe siècle, sur les traits de l'entreprise " chandlérienne " et du capitalisme managérial. Il se situe également dans une perspective institutionnaliste, incorporant des éléments touchant à l'évolution des formes juridiques, des instruments de gestion et des fondements idéologiques
Author: Bernard Paranque Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing ISBN: 1785609793 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 441
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This volume argues the need for a radical break with the methodological individualism that dominates economics, management and finance, asking 'How should we (re)define the concept of value?' and serving as a stepping stone for the rethinking of academic finance.
Author: B. Hibou Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137495286 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 254
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Contemporary bureaucracy is a set of norms, rules, procedures, and formalities which includes administration, business, and NGOs. Where Max Weber meets Michel Foucault, Béatrice Hibou analyzes the political dynamics underlying this process. Neoliberal bureaucracy is a vector of discipline and control, producing social and political indifference.
Author: Thomas Clarke Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0191056847 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 708
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The Oxford Handbook of the Corporation assesses the contemporary relevance, purpose, and performance of the corporation. The corporation is one of the most significant, if contested, innovations in human history, and the direction and effectiveness of corporate law, corporate governance, and corporate performance are being challenged as never before. Continuously evolving, the corporation as the primary instrument for wealth generation in contemporary economies demands frequent assessment and reinterpretation. The focus of this work is the transformative impact of innovation and change upon corporate structure, purpose, and operation. Corporate innovation is at the heart of the value-creation process in increasingly internationalized and competitive market economies, and corporations today are embedded in a world of complex global supply chains and rising state and state-directed capitalism. In questioning the fundamental purpose and performance of the corporation, this Handbook continues a tradition commenced by Berle and Means, and contributed to by generations of business scholars. What is the corporation and what is it becoming? How do we define its form and purpose and how are these changing? To whom is the corporation responsible, and who should judge the ultimate performance of corporations? By investigating the origins, development, strategies, and theories of corporations, this volume addresses such questions to provide a richer theoretical account of the corporation and its contested future.
Author: Michel Feher Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1942130198 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 118
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The hegemony of finance compels a new orientation for everyone and everything: companies care more about the moods of their shareholders than about longstanding commercial success; governments subordinate citizen welfare to appeasing creditors; and individuals are concerned less with immediate income from labor than appreciation of their capital goods, skills, connections, and reputations. That firms, states, and people depend more on their ratings than on the product of their activities also changes how capitalism is resisted. For activists, the focus of grievances shifts from the extraction of profit to the conditions under which financial institutions allocate credit. While the exploitation of employees by their employers has hardly been curbed, the power of investors to select investees — to decide who and what is deemed creditworthy — has become a new site of social struggle. In clear and compelling prose, Michel Feher explains the extraordinary shift in conduct and orientation generated by financialization. Above all, he articulates the new political resistances and aspirations that investees draw from their rated agency.
Author: Pierre Dardot Publisher: Verso Books ISBN: 1786634740 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 209
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Neoliberalism's war against democracy and how to resist it How do we explain the strange survival of the forces responsible for the 2008 economic crisis, one of the worst since 1929? How do we explain the fact that neoliberalism has emerged from the crisis strengthened? When it broke, a number of the most prominent economists hastened to announce the 'death' of neoliberalism. They regarded the pursuit of neoliberal policy as the fruit of dogmatism. For Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval, neoliberalism is no mere dogma. Supported by powerful oligarchies, it is a veritable politico-institutional system that obeys a logic of self-reinforcement. Far from representing a break, crisis has become a formidably effective mode of government. In showing how this system crystallized and solidified, the book explains that the neoliberal straitjacket has succeeded in preventing any course correction by progressively deactivating democracy. Increasing the disarray and demobilization, the so-called 'governmental' Left has actively helped strengthen this oligarchical logic. The latter could lead to a definitive exit from democracy in favour of expertocratic governance, free of any control. However, nothing has been decided yet. The revival of democratic activity, which we see emerging in the political movements and experiments of recent years, is a sign that the political confrontation with the neoliberal system and the oligarchical bloc has already begun.
Author: Laure Morel Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1848218729 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 142
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The digital economy is now expanding rapidly, and is starting to overturn the past achievements of the Industrial Revolution. Initially engaging in the world of services, it is now turning to the manufacture of objects. Just as microcomputing evolved from large scale computing to more personal use, and as the Internet left behind the world of armies and universities to become universal, industrial production is gradually becoming directly controlled by individuals. This appropriation is being done either on a personal level, or, more significantly, within local or planetary communities: Fab Labs. These digital fabrication laboratories offer workshops to members of the public where all sorts of tools are available (including 3D printers, laser cutters and sanders) for the design and creation of personalized objects. The bringing together of various users (amateurs, designers, artists, “dabblers”, etc.) and possibilities for collaboration lies at the heart of these open-access productive spaces. This book covers a range of advances in this new personal fabrication and various issues that it has raised, especially in terms of the alternatives to salaried work, intellectual property, ecological openings and the hitherto unseen structuring of societies.
Author: Denis Lemaître Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1119563453 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 290
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Throughout history, engineers have been defined as those who bring technological innovation to society. However, the concept of innovation and the role of the engineer are now changing as a result of globalization, the digital revolution, growing inequalities and environmental concerns. Training Engineers for Innovation therefore analyzes the ways in which the educational systems for engineers are adapting to these new demands, as well as the conditions in which this training has developed. This book brings together the works of a consortium of researchers dedicated to the subject area as part of the Innov’Ing 2020 project. Its contributors present various means to devise effective pedagogies adapted to a holistic approach to innovation which incorporates the technical, economic, social, ethical and environmental dimensions of engineering.
Author: David J. Bailey Publisher: Manchester University Press ISBN: 1847799345 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 387
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This book makes an important contribution to the existing literature on European social democracy in the wake of the 2008 financial crash and ensuing recession. It assesses how social democratic parties have responded, at the national as well as at the European Union level. A wide range of leading political scientists provide the reader with an in-depth understanding of the prospects for social democracy in the midst of an unprecedented crisis for neoliberalism. The book draws together some of the most well-known and prestigious scholars of social democracy and social democratic parties, along with a number of impressive new scholars in the field, to present a compelling and up to date analysis of social democratic fortunes in the contemporary period. It benefits from an analysis of social democratic parties’ experiences in 6 different countries – the UK, Sweden, Germany, France, Spain and Greece – along with a number of chapters on the fate of social democracy in the institutions of the EU.
Author: Olivier Weinstein
Author: André Orléan
Author: Bernard Paranque
Author: B. Hibou
Author: Thomas Clarke
Author: Michel Feher
Author: Pierre Dardot
Author: Laure Morel
Author: Denis Lemaître
Author: David J. Bailey