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    Book Review: Capital Without Borders: Wealth Managers and the One Percent by Brooke Harrington

Book Review: Capital Without Borders: Wealth Managers and the One Percent by Brooke Harrington

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In Capital Without Borders: Wealth Managers and the One Percent, Brooke Harrington offers an in-depth look into the work of wealth management professionals who ensure that the ‘one percent’ keep getting richer. Drawing on interviews and Harrington’s own experiences of a wealth management training programme, Sin Yee Koh finds this a well-researched and clearly written ethnographic study that focuses attention […]

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    Book Review: The Conversational Firm: Rethinking Bureaucracy in the Age of Social Media by Catherine J. Turco

Book Review: The Conversational Firm: Rethinking Bureaucracy in the Age of Social Media by Catherine J. Turco

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In The Conversational Firm: Rethinking Bureaucracy in the Age of Social Media, Catherine J. Turco offers a ethnographic study of a fast-growing social media marketing company, anonymised as ‘TechCo’, that has sought to foster a different corporate culture through its use of social media to facilitate dialogue between employees across the hierarchy. The book offers an empathetic and nuanced understanding of the […]

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