The Triumph of Emptiness: Consumption, Higher Education and Work Organization

By:

Alvesson, Mats

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford University Press 2014 OxfordDescription: 243pISBN:

9780198708803

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DDC classification:

302.35 ALV

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Item type	Current library	Item location	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	NIMA Knowledge Centre	9th Floor Reading Zone	General	302.35 ALV (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		M0031805

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1. Introduction: zero-sum games, grandiosity, and illusion tricks
2. Consumption - the shortcomings of affluence
3. Explaining the consumption paradox - why aren't people (more) satisfied?
4. Higher education - triumph of the knowledge-intensive society?
5. Higher education - an image-boosting business?
6. Modern working life and organizations - change, dynamism, and post-bureaucracy?
7. Organizational structures on the beauty parade - imitations and shop-window dressing
8. A place in the sun - occupational groups' professionalization projects and other status and influence ambitions
9. Leadership - a driving force or empty talk?
10. The triumph of imagology - a paradise for tricksters?
11. The costs of grandiosity

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