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

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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Auteur principal: Chong, Kimberly, 1982- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • 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.