Situating "global corporate management" -- Managing in the middle kingdom : three investment projects in China -- Presencing projects : a social reality of construction -- High finance and contemporary crisis capitalism -- The turn to enchantment : investing in projects -- Wagging the dog : the financialization of sociality -- Money manager capitalism and reverse redistribution -- In good company? -- Directors and directions of creation -- Managing in a total context of crisis
Summary
This is an extraordinary book, huge in every way, one man's personal synthesis of the world we live in, as seen through his own experience of Norway's largest business corporation and much much more. The book and the author have a lot going for them. There are few in-depth anthropological studies of global corporations. Scandinavian anthropology is enjoying a boom and this is reflected in the present study. The author is ... open to a very wide range of philosophy, critique, journalism, anthropology, and social science. Keith Hart, University of London. [T]his book is a gem. I like it very m
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-273) and index
