Best Practice : Management Consulting and the Ethics of Financialization in China /

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In Best Practice Kimberly Chong provides an ethnography of a global management consultancy that has been hired by Chinese companies, including Chinese state-owned enterprises. She shows how consulting emerges as a crucial site for considering how corporate organization, employee performance, busines...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chong, Kimberly, 1982- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Unternehmensberatung
Unternehmensberater
Management
Business ethics.
Business consultants.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
REFERENCE > Questions & Answers.
Financiarisation > Aspect moral > Chine.
Morale des affaires > Chine.
Conseillers d'entreprise > Chine.
Financialization > Moral and ethical aspects > China.
Business ethics > China.
Business consultants > China.
China.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • High performers: the making of financialized subjects
  • Evaluating humans: financial rationality and practices of performance-related pay
  • Reducing costs: shared service centers, labor, and the outsourcing rationale
  • Training value: the moral and political project of selling consultancy
  • Client sites: liminality, modernity, and performances of expertise
  • Building a paradise: post-Mao visions of transformation
  • Conspicuous ethicizing: corporate culture, CSR, and corporate subjectivity.

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