Business and the Culture of the Enterprise Society

This book highlights the influence of business on culture and traces the increasingly dominant role that business plays in shaping social and cultural experience. It argues that in the contemporary world, the dividing line between commerce and culture is becoming increasingly blurred and that business practices and values now dominate the material, intellectual and spiritual life of the community. This general thesis is illustrated with material from economics, sociology, psychology, anthropology, history, art, biography, literature, film, theater, television, technology, and computer science--- material drawn together by the common thread of business.

JOHN DEEKS is Associate Professor in the Department of Management Studies and Labor Relations in the Faculty of Commerce and Economics at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. He is a graduate of Cambridge University and the London School of Economics and Political Science and has been employed in management and research posts in business and the public sector. His previous books includeThe Small-Firm Owner-Manager: Entrepreneurial Behavior and Management Practice (Praeger, 1976) and, jointly edited with Nick Perry,Controlling Interests: Business, the State and Society in New Zealand (1992).