CEO Society
Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) have become the cultural icons ofthe 21st century. Figures like Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg are held upas role models who epitomise the modern pursuit of innovation, wealth andsuccess. We now live, Bloom and Rhodes argue, in a 'CEO society' - a societywhere corporate leadership has become the model for transforming not justbusiness, but all spheres of life, where everyone from politicians tojobseekers to even those seeking love are expected to imitate the qualities of the lionized corporateexecutive.But why, in the wake of the failings exposed by the 2008 financialcrisis, does the corporate ideal continue to…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-78699-075-4
- EAN: 9781786990754
- Produktnummer: 27089636
- Verlag: Zed Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 0 KB
Über den Autor
Peter Bloom heads thePeople and Organisations Department at the Open University, UK. His researchcritically examines the everyday practices of capitalism and democracy andtheir implications for work and life. Peter's recent books include Authoritarian Capitalism in the Age ofGlobalization (2016) and The Ethics of Neoliberalism: The Business ofMaking Capitalism Moral (2017), while his writing has featured in The Washington Post, The Guardian, TheIndependent, The New Statesmen, The Week, The Conversation and Open Democracy among others.Carl Rhodes isProfessor of Organisation Studies at UTS Business School in Sydney, Australia. Hehas published numerous books and papers concerning the ethical and politicaldimensions of business and working life. He recently published The Companion to Ethics, Politics andOrganizations (2015, with Alison Pullen), and regularly writes for the mainstream and independent press, where his articlescan be found in The Guardian, NewMatilda, The Conversation, Independent Australia, and Open Democracy.
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