Producing Culture and Capital - Family Firms in Italy

About the author

Sylvia Junko Yanagisako is Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology at Stanford University. She is the author of Transforming the Past and coeditor of Gender and Kinship and Naturalizing Power.

Summary

Illuminates the cultural processes through which sentiments, desires, and commitments motivate and shape capitalist family firms. This book shows how flexible specialization is produced through the cultural dynamics of capital accumulation, management succession, firm expansion and diversification, and the reproduction and division of firms.

Product details

• Authors: Sylvia Yanagisako, Yanagisako Sylvia
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.11.2002
• EAN: 9780691095103
• ISBN: 978-0-691-09510-3
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Cultural Studies, Business & Economics / General, Business and Management, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Italy, Business & management, Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies, Centrist democratic ideologies