Sison studies a wide range of recent management cases from the viewpoint of moral capital: the sorry state of US airport screeners before 9-11, the Ford Explorer rollovers and Firestone tire failures, the battle for the 'HP way' between Carly Fiorina and the heirs of the founding families, the...

Samir Amin remains one of the world's most influential thinkers about the changing nature of North-South relations in the development of contemporary capitalism. In this highly prescient book, originally published in 1997, he provides a powerful analysis of the new unilateral capitalist era...

China's rise exerts a powerful pull on ASEAN economies and constitutes an impetus for a resinicization of Overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia.China has become a skilled practitioner of "commercial diplomacy", and as long as it continues to lead the way in regional integration, China's state-led...

Intro -- Half-title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Global Accumulation and the Capitalist World-system -- 2. From Central Planning to Capitalism -- 3. Russian Big Business: Corporate Governance and the...

Cover -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1. Per aspera ad nebulae or to market through a hybrid civil war: survival myths of systemic failure -- 2. Capitalist antecedents in the late USSR -- 3. Social destruction and kleptocratic construction of...

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- 1. An Overview -- Part I: Modes of Production and Classes -- 2. Patterns of Income Distribution -- 3. Marx's Theory of History -- 4. Managers in Marx's Analysis -- 5. Sociality and Class Societies -- 6. Managerialism and...