Bøger af Carl Rhodes

From Occupy Wall Street to 'tax-the-rich' activism, there has been growing resistance to the unearned wealth and power commanded by the billionaire class - an ultra-elite social class who have sequestered the world's wealth while others languish in poverty and hunger. How do they get away with it? Coupled with their immense financial resources, a set of inter-connected myths portray billionaires as a 'force for good' - Heroic billionaires - Generous billionaires - Meritorious billionaires - Vigilante billionaires These archetypes are allowing billionaire wealth and power to set us back to old-style feudalism and plutocracy. Offering a trenchant critique of the new breed of billionaires, this incisive book testifies to the growing political will worldwide to take concrete actions to support economic justice and democratic equality.

The authors describe the relevance of five international case studies in relation to Australia's creation of a Sovereign Guided Weapons Enterprise, identified as a key priority by the government in its 2020 Defence Strategic Update.

A review of how organizations are represented in various examples of contemporary culture. This book demonstrates how that culture can be read as an embodiment of knowledge about organizations and explores the potential of such knowledge and the way in which the culture can reflect on the spirit of resistance, carnivalisation and rebellion.

This book assembles some of the bits that break off in the process of this collision. It plays with the already contested boundaries 'correct images' and 'correct narratives' of a legitimate organization studies so as to attest to a destabilization of any theory and method that would desire to capture, reproduce and indoctrinate knowledge.The book brings together a group of the most exciting, innovative and original thinkers and writers working in the field of organization studies today. These are writers who push the boundaries of innovative and unconventional work that is on the fringe of publishability as governed by prevailing standards in the dominant bastions of organization studies.Advances in Organization Studies, Vol. 24Series editors: Stewart R. Clegg & Ralph E. StableinAdvances in Organization Studies is a channel for cutting edge theoretical and empirical works of high quality, that contributes to the field of organizational studies. The series welcomes thought-provoking ideas, new perspectives and neglected topics from researchers within a wide range of disciplines and geographical locations.