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Tug of war : surveillance capitalism, military contracting, and the rise of the security state /

Lifting the veil on a corporate world girded by powerful forces at the nexus of state, capital, and geopolitical power games.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wills, Jocelyn, 1960- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2017]
Colección:Carleton library series ; 242.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : satellites and surveillance capitalism
  • "Our knowledge is in the holes" : software consulting and the sweat-equity formula, 1968-1977
  • "Innovation in a cold climate" : remote sensing and the government contracting paradigm, 1971-1980
  • "Two things went wrong at once" : mythical man-months, financial crises, and the near-death experience, 1975-1981
  • "Unscrambling the mess" : financial restructuring, management discipline, and the military contracting formula, 1981-1987
  • "The systems vision was too hard" : investor strategies, product development, and the demise of the manufacturing vision, 1982-1988
  • "One amorphous mass" : systems integration, strategic planning, and the search for liquidity, 1988-1993
  • "This company will be sold" : MDA's public offering, orbital's acquisition, and the dot-com bust, 1993-2001
  • "Shades of grey" : 11 September 2001, the homeland security bubble, and Canada's sovereignty imbroglio, 2001-2008
  • "A lucky escape" : the great recession, property information divestment, and the acquisition of a critical mass in satellite manufacturing, 2009-2012.