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This book rethinks the city by examining its various forms of
collectivity - their atmospheres, modes of exclusion and
self-organization, as well as how they are governed - on the basis
of a critical discussion of the notion of urban commons. The idea
of the commons has received surprisingly little attention in urban
theory, although the city may well be conceived as a shared
resource. Urban Commons: Rethinking the City offers an attempt to
reconsider what a city might be by studying how the notion of the
commons opens up new understandings of urban collectivities,
addressing a range of questions about urban diversity, urban
governance, urban belonging, urban sexuality, urban subcultures,
and urban poverty; but also by discussing in more methodological
terms how one might study the urban commons. In these respects, the
rethinking of the city undertaken in this book has a critical
dimension, as the notion of the commons delivers new insights about
how collective urban life is formed and governed.
This book rethinks the city by examining its various forms of
collectivity their atmospheres, modes of exclusion and
self-organization, as well as how they are governed on the basis of
a critical discussion of the notion of urban commons. The idea of
the commons has received surprisingly little attention in urban
theory, given that the city may well be conceived as a shared
resource. Consequently, the proposed book aims to rethink what a
city might be by studying how the notion of the commons opens up
new understandings of what urban collectivities are, by addressing
a range of questions about urban diversity, urban governance, urban
belonging, urban sexuality, urban subcultures, urban emergencies,
and urban creativity; but also by discussing in more methodological
terms how one might study the urban commons. In these respects, the
rethinking of the city undertaken in this book has an irreducibly
critical edge, as the notion of the commons delivers new insights
about how collective urban life is formed and governed. "
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Thinking Infrastructures (Hardcover)
Martin Kornberger, Geoffrey C Bowker, Julia Elyachar, Andrea Mennicken, Peter Miller, …
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This volume introduces the notion of Thinking Infrastructures to
explore a broad range of phenomena that structure attention, shape
decision-making, and guide cognition: Thinking Infrastructures
configure entities (via tracing, tagging), organise knowledge (via
search engines), sort things out (via rankings and ratings), govern
markets (via calculative practices, including algorithms), and
configure preferences (via valuations such as recommender systems).
Thus, Thinking Infrastructures, we collectively claim in this
volume, inform and shape distributed and embodied cognition,
including collective reasoning, structuring of attention and
orchestration of decision-making.
This book shows that in business, moral questions are not just
theoretical; they arise in practice and have to be dealt with in
practice. It illustrates that 'ethics as practice' is an important
area of study because it focuses on how ethics are enacted and
embedded in everyday organizational reality. In contrast to the
approaches dominating mainstream literature, the authors of this
thought provoking volume focus on the tensions, paradoxes and
ambiguities that underpin ethics in practice. Recent corporate
scandals such as those involving Enron, Worldcom and Parmalat have
brought to the fore a problem which mainstream economics and
management studies have long ignored: the fact that neither rules,
regulations, nor the laws of the market can ensure ethical
behaviour. The authors of this fascinating book take the tension
between 'morals or money' and 'profits or principles' as the
starting point of their investigations into how ethical problems
emerge and are managed. They show that ethics are at stake in
ambiguous situations where different, often contradicting, sets of
moral values and rules clash. Business Ethics as Practice will
prove a stimulating and fascinating read for scholars of
organization theory, organizational behaviour, business and
management, and more generally, humanities and the social sciences.
Business practitioners will also find much illuminating material to
reflect upon and consider within this book.
'If strategy is the queen of business, then this book offers us the
perfect introduction to her court! It is accessible, lively, and
informative. The book repays the reader with wonderful account of
how strategy works. It also lets the reader in on some of the
darker secrets of strategy' - Andre Spicer, Associate Professor of
Organisation Studies, Warwick Business School Studying Strategy is
a welcoming, lively and thought provoking account that helps
students get to grips with strategy's key issues and broad debates
and introduce them to the latest ideas. Conceived by Chris Grey as
an antidote to conventional textbooks, each book in the 'Very
Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap' series takes a core
area of the curriculum and turns it on its head by providing a
critical and sophisticated overview of the key issues and debates
in an informal, conversational and often humorous way. Suitable for
students of strategy at Undergraduate, Masters and MBA level,
professionals involved in strategic decision making and anyone
interested in how strategy works. Need another VSFI book? Browse
the series here
Brands are a fait accompli: they represent a mountain range of
evidence in search of a theory. They are much exploited, but little
explored. In this book, Martin Kornberger sets out to rectify the
ratio between exploiting and exploring through sketching out a
theory of the Brand Society. Most attempts to explain the role of
brands focus on brands either as marketing and management tools
(business perspective) or a symptoms of consumerism (sociological
perspective). Brand Society combines these perspectives to show how
brands have the power to transform both the organizations that
develop them and the lifestyles of the individuals who consume
them. This holistic approach shows how brands function as a medium
between producers and consumers in a way that is rapidly
transforming our economy and society. That's the bottom line of the
Brand Society: brands are a new way of organizing production and
managing consumption. Using an array of practical case studies from
a diverse set of organizations, this book provides a fascinating
account of the way in which brands influence the lives of
individuals and the organizations they work in.
How do we organize ourselves to accomplish shared goals? Our
well-worn modes of collective action-from markets to hierarchies,
from institutions to movements-have so far provided a limited
vocabulary to investigate, let alone invent, new forms of open,
networked, and trans-sectoral collaboration. Yet new forms of
collective action are continually emerging, defined by openness,
polycentricity, and plurality while still strategic and
goal-oriented. Martin Kornberger pursues these experimental models
to offer a vocabulary for the hitherto "untapped capability" to
organize and strategize distributed and collective action. He
introduces a novel set of concepts including shared concerns,
symbols, interface designs, participatory architectures, evaluative
infrastructures, network strategy, and leading as diplomacy, which
together combine goal-orientated, purposeful action with scale,
openness, and creativity. With a new vocabulary we can explore
alternative ways of thinking and strategies to address the
significant challenges and crises of our times.
Brands are a fait accompli: they represent a mountain range of
evidence in search of a theory. They are much exploited, but little
explored. In this book, Martin Kornberger sets out to rectify the
ratio between exploiting and exploring through sketching out a
theory of the Brand Society. Most attempts to explain the role of
brands focus on brands either as marketing and management tools
(business perspective) or a symptoms of consumerism (sociological
perspective). Brand Society combines these perspectives to show how
brands have the power to transform both the organizations that
develop them and the lifestyles of the individuals who consume
them. This holistic approach shows how brands function as a medium
between producers and consumers in a way that is rapidly
transforming our economy and society. That's the bottom line of the
Brand Society: brands are a new way of organizing production and
managing consumption. Using an array of practical case studies from
a diverse set of organizations, this book provides a fascinating
account of the way in which brands influence the lives of
individuals and the organizations they work in.
Brands are a fait accompli: they represent a mountain range of
evidence in search of a theory. They are much exploited, but little
explored. In this book, Martin Kornberger sets out to rectify the
ratio between exploiting and exploring through sketching out a
theory of the Brand Society. Most attempts to explain the role of
brands focus on brands either as marketing and management tools
(business perspective) or a symptoms of consumerism (sociological
perspective). Brand Society combines these perspectives to show how
brands have the power to transform both the organizations that
develop them and the lifestyles of the individuals who consume
them. This holistic approach shows how brands function as a medium
between producers and consumers in a way that is rapidly
transforming our economy and society. That's the bottom line of the
Brand Society: brands are a new way of organizing production and
managing consumption. Using an array of practical case studies from
a diverse set of organizations, this book provides a fascinating
account of the way in which brands influence the lives of
individuals and the organizations they work in.
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