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Making Global MBAs
The Culture of Business and the Business of Culture
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2019
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A generation of aspiring business managers has been taught to see a world of difference as a world of opportunity. In Making Global MBAs, Andrew Orta examines the culture of contemporary business education, and the ways MBA programs participate in the production of global capitalism through the education of the business subjects who will be managing it.
Based on extensive field research in several leading US business schools, this groundbreaking ethnography exposes what the culture of MBA training says about contemporary understandings of capitalism in the context of globalization. Orta details the rituals of MBA life and the ways MBA curricula cultivate both habits of fast-paced technical competence and “softer” qualities and talents thought to be essential to unlocking the value of international cultural difference while managing its risks. Making Global MBAs provides an essential critique of neoliberal thinking for students and professionals in a wide variety of fields.
Based on extensive field research in several leading US business schools, this groundbreaking ethnography exposes what the culture of MBA training says about contemporary understandings of capitalism in the context of globalization. Orta details the rituals of MBA life and the ways MBA curricula cultivate both habits of fast-paced technical competence and “softer” qualities and talents thought to be essential to unlocking the value of international cultural difference while managing its risks. Making Global MBAs provides an essential critique of neoliberal thinking for students and professionals in a wide variety of fields.
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Contributor: Andrew Orta
Andrew Orta is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Catechizing Culture: Missionaries, Aymara, and the “New Evangelization.”
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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1. Wall Street Goes to the Ends of the Earth
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2. Fast Subjects: The Rituals of MBA Training
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3. Accounting for Business
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4. The Currency of Culture
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5. Managing the Margins
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6. Partial Answers: The Uses of Ethnographic Capitalist Realism
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7. Frontiers of Capitalism
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Notes
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References
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Index
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October 21, 2019
eBook ISBN:
9780520974258
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256
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Keywords for this book
success; ambition; business manager; opportunity; mba; ethnography; capitalism; free markets; late stage capitalism; globalization; curricula; nonfiction; accounting; international business; social entrepreneurship; wall street; global economy; sales; trends; markets; market share; cross cultural; education; business practices; global capitalism; business training; brazil; china; business programs; business education; cultural difference; business
