{"product_id":"making-global-mbas-the-culture-of-business-and-the-business-of-culture-47-california-series-in-public-anthropology-9780520325401","title":"Making Global MBAs The Culture of Business and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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 differencewhile managing its risks. Making Global MBAs provides an essential critique of neoliberal thinking for students and professionals in a wide variety of fields.    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Orta brings a particular expertise to the analysis of cultures, honed in earlier ethnographic studies of relations between Catholic missionaries and the indigenous Aymara communities of the Bolivian highlands. He notably delves into the growth in “international business” teaching on MBA courses, transmitted through case studies and short-term study assignments abroad.\" * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003e\"A thick and vibrant description of the MBA experience that makes a contribution to an understanding of the MBA milieu and influence and to the anthropology of business.\" * American Anthropologist *\u003cbr\u003e\"A sweeping vision that sees the MBA as underpinning the current era of globalization and business development. . . . Recommended.\" * CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003e\"A fascinating cultural portrait of future middle and senior managers as key players in global business. . . . The book will be a valuable reference to anthropologists interested in education and business culture.\" * Anthropology Book Forum *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1 • Wall Street Goes to the Ends of the Earth\u003cbr\u003e Masters of the Universe\u003cbr\u003e The MBA Boom and the Refiguring of Global Capitalism\u003cbr\u003e Anthropology and Capitalism\u003cbr\u003e Capitalism, Difference, and the Excess of Culture\u003cbr\u003e An Anthropologist among the MBAs\u003cbr\u003e Organization of the Book\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2 • Fast Subjects: The Rituals of MBA Training\u003cbr\u003e Compression and the Paracurriculum\u003cbr\u003e Axioms of Capitalism\u003cbr\u003e Science and Art: Talent and the Management of Excess\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3 • Accounting for Business\u003cbr\u003e From Clerks to Managers\u003cbr\u003e Managing the Modern\u003cbr\u003e Managing the Postwar World\u003cbr\u003e Managers Abroad\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4 • The Currency of Culture\u003cbr\u003e Discovering Culture with First-Year MBAs\u003cbr\u003e Culture in Context\u003cbr\u003e Culturing the Ugly American\u003cbr\u003e Building a Better International Manager\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5 • Managing the Margins\u003cbr\u003e Staging the Global Incompletely\u003cbr\u003e Short-Term Study Abroad\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6 • Partial Answers: The Uses of Ethnographic\u003cbr\u003e Capitalist Realism\u003cbr\u003e The (Panic-Inducing) Hold Real Life Has\u003cbr\u003e Inventing the Case Method\u003cbr\u003e Working the Cases\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7 • Frontiers of Capitalism\u003cbr\u003e Scaling Difference\u003cbr\u003e Two Parables of Social Entrepreneurship\u003cbr\u003e New Economies Arising\u003cbr\u003e Scaling the MBA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402928005463,"sku":"9780520325401","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520325401.jpg?v=1730481873","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/making-global-mbas-the-culture-of-business-and-the-business-of-culture-47-california-series-in-public-anthropology-9780520325401","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}