Kimberly Chong

Best Practice

Management Consulting and the Ethics of Financialization in China

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Produktbeschreibung

In Best Practice Kimberly Chong provides an ethnography of a global management consultancy that has been hired by Chinese companies, including Chinese state-owned enterprises. She shows how consulting emerges as a crucial site for considering how corporate organization, employee performance, business ethics, and labor have been transformed under financialization. To date financialization has been examined using top-down approaches that portray the rise of finance as a new logic of economic accumulation. Best Practice, by contrast, focuses on the everyday practices and narratives through which companies become financialized. Effective management consultants, Chong finds, incorporate local workplace norms and assert their expertise in the particular terms of China's national project of modernization, while at the same time framing their work in terms of global "best practices." Providing insight into how global management consultancies refashion Chinese state-owned enterprises in preparation for stock market flotation, Chong demonstrates both the dynamic, fragmented character of financialization and the ways in which Chinese state capitalism enables this process.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 382g
• ISBN-13: 9781478000884
• ISBN-10: 1478000880
• Artikelnr.: 50909259

Autorenporträt

Kimberly Chong is Lecturer of Anthropology at University College London.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction  1
1. High Performers: The Making of Financialized Subjects  35
2. Evaluating Humans: Financial Rationality and Practices of
Performance-Related Pay  64
3. Reducing Costs: Shared Service Centers, Labor, and the Outsourcing
Rationale  91
4. Training Value: The Moral and Political Project of Selling Consultancy 
110
5. Client Sites: Liminality, Modernity, and Performances of Expertise  131
6. Building a Paradise: Post-Mao Visions of Transformation  151
7. Conspicuous Ethicizing: Corporate Culture, CSR, and Corporate
Subjectivity  172
Conclusion  193
Notes  203
References  221
Index  241