The Triumph of Emptiness: Consumption, Higher Education, and Work Organization

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The Triumph of Emptiness: Consumption, Higher Education, and Work Organization

by Mats Alvesson

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In this book, Mats Alvesson aims to demystify some popular and upbeat claims about a range of phenomena, including the knowledge society, consumption, branding, higher education, organizational change, professionalization, and leadership. He contends that a culture of grandiosity is leading to numerous inflated claims. We no longer talk about plans but strategies. Supervisors have been replaced by managers. Goods have become brands. Wealthy countries try to show that they are knowledge societies through mass higher education but with limited effect on real qualifications or qualified job opportunities for graduates. The book views the contemporary economy as an economy of persuasion,

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  • Oxford University Press, Brand
  • 9780199660940 ISBN-13:
  • 0199660948 ISBN-10:
  • 0199660948 ISBN-10
  • 9780199660940 ISBN-13
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