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Understanding the enterprise culture : themes in the work of Mary Douglas

Title
Understanding the enterprise culture : themes in the work of Mary Douglas / edited by Shaun Hargreaves Heap and Angus Ross.
Publication
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©1992.

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Book/TextUse in library JFD 92-4020Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Additional Authors
  • Douglas, Mary, 1921-2007
  • Heap, Shaun Hargreaves, 1951-
  • Ross, Angus (Angus C.)
Subject
  • Douglas, Mary, 1921-2007
  • Business anthropology
  • Organizational behavior
  • Entrepreneurship > Social aspects
  • Free enterprise > Social aspects
  • Capitalism > Social aspects
  • Culture
  • Social change
  • Social values
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience (note)
  • 1390L
Contents
Introduction: Mary Douglas and the enterprise culture / Shaun Hargreaves Heap and Angus Ross -- Why do people want goods? / Mary Douglas -- An institutional ecology of values / Mary Douglas -- The person in an enterprise culture / Mary Douglas -- Entrepreneurship, enterprise and information in economics / Shaun Hargreaves Heap -- Convention and legitimacy : how artificial is justice? / Onora O'Neil -- Environmental risk management in an enterprise culture / Timothy O'Riordan -- A social animal? / Angus Ross -- Fear of fridges : some aspects of the politics of consumption / John Street -- Naturalness and the spontaneous order of the market / Robert Sugden -- The dynamics of cultural theory and their implications for the enterprise culture / Michael Thompson -- Close encounters of the third sector kind / Albert Wheale.
Call Number
JFD 92-4020
ISBN
  • 0748603239
  • 9780748603237
LCCN
92219922
OCLC
27815566
Title
Understanding the enterprise culture : themes in the work of Mary Douglas / edited by Shaun Hargreaves Heap and Angus Ross.
Imprint
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©1992.
Description
227 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary
Mary Douglas' enterprise initiative has been a strong political and cultural influence in Europe over the last 10 years. This book examines Douglas' Grid Group cultural theory and how it allows us to analyze the complex relation between the culture of enterprise and its institutions.
Audience
1390L Lexile
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Douglas, Mary, 1921-2007.
Heap, Shaun Hargreaves, 1951- editor.
Ross, Angus (Angus C.), editor.
Research Call Number
JFD 92-4020
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