Lecture 11 Organizing Digital And Financialising

Lecture 11: Organising digital and financialising technologies (28 Mar)Contemporary organisational changesJensen, M. C., & Meckling, W. H. (1976). Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure. Journal of Financial Economics, 3(4), 305-360.Gerald F. Davis, What Might Replace the Modern Corporation? Uberization and the Web Page Enterprise (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., 39 SEATTLE U. L. REV. 501 (2016)."[T]he ‘nexus’ imagery served as a useful provocation, a lever to bust up the unwieldy and shareholder-hostile conglomerates built up over the prior decades. This was a theory perfectly designed to legitimate a bust-up takeover wave" (p. 509)Mishel, L, & Davis, A. (2015). Top CEOs Make 300 Times More than Typical Workers: Pay Growth Surpasses Stock Gains and Wage Growth of Top 0.1 Percent (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. Economic Policy Institute.Mishel, L., & Schieder, J. (2018). CEO compensation surged in 2017 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. Economic Policy Institute.An economy for the 1% (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. Oxfam. Periodizations for making sense of the present momentThe Four Industrial Revolutions (see: Schwab, 2017 (Links to