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The Triumph of Emptiness - Consumption, Higher Education, and Work Organization (Hardcover)
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The Triumph of Emptiness - Consumption, Higher Education, and Work Organization (Hardcover)
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In this book, Mats Alvesson aims to demystify some popular and
upbeat claims about a range of phenomena, including the knowledge
society, consumption, branding, higher education, organizational
change, professionalization, and leadership. He contends that a
culture of grandiosity is leading to numerous inflated claims. We
no longer talk about plans but strategies. Supervisors have been
replaced by managers. Goods have become brands. Wealthy countries
try to show that they are knowledge societies through mass higher
education but with limited effect on real qualifications or
qualified job opportunities for graduates. The book views the
contemporary economy as an economy of persuasion, where firms and
other institutions increasingly assign talent, energy, and
resources to rhetoric, image, branding, reputation, and visibility.
Using a wide range of empirical examples to illuminate the realms
of consumption, higher education, organization, and leadership,
this provocative and engaging book challenges established
assumptions and contributes to a critical understanding of society
as a whole.
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