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Making Global MBAs : The Culture of Business and the Business of Culture
Author
Title
Making Global MBAs : The Culture of Business and the Business of Culture / Andrew Orta.
ISBN
9780520974258
Publication
Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2019]
Copyright Notice Date
©2019
Physical Description
1 online resource (256 p.)
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Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
In English.
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Summary
A generation of aspiring business managers has been taught to see a world of difference as a world of opportunity. In Making Global MBAs, Andrew Orta examines the culture of contemporary business education, and the ways MBA programs participate in the production of global capitalism through the education of the business subjects who will be managing it. Based on extensive field research in several leading US business schools, this groundbreaking ethnography exposes what the culture of MBA training says about contemporary understandings of capitalism in the context of globalization. Orta details the rituals of MBA life and the ways MBA curricula cultivate both habits of fast-paced technical competence and "softer" qualities and talents thought to be essential to unlocking the value of international cultural difference while managing its risks. Making Global MBAs provides an essential critique of neoliberal thinking for students and professionals in a wide variety of fields.
Variant and related titles
De Gruyter University Press eBook pilot project 2019.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 17, 2022
Series
California Series in Public Anthropology ; 47
Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
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Acknowledgments
1. Wall Street Goes to the Ends of the Earth
2. Fast Subjects: The Rituals of MBA Training
3. Accounting for Business
4. The Currency of Culture
5. Managing the Margins
6. Partial Answers: The Uses of Ethnographic Capitalist Realism
7. Frontiers of Capitalism
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Index
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