Overview
- Provides a detailed overview over the meaning and matter of a performative enterprise, going beyond quality goals
- Examines the implications of performativity in company matters of identity
- Discusses performativity in the framework of Industry 4.0
Part of the book series: Future of Business and Finance (FBF)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Performative
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The Enterprise
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The Performative Enterprise
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About this book
This book is about quality redundancy and its replacement by the “performativity” norm. Performativity is a linguistic, social, and political mechanism that produces the intended performance. The author, Alexander Tsigkas, sees this book as a natural continuation of his prior book The Lean Enterprise – From the Mass Economy to the Economy of One. He argues that performativity is the flip side of quality on a coin called identity, and in postmodernism, that is, in the age of Industry 4.0 and beyond, companies should be aiming for performativity and achieve quality as one of its many consequences. The author, therefore, encourages modern businesses to transition from quality orientation as conformance alone to a performance orientation.
The author brings forward historic, current, and philosophical perspectives in charting performativity as a new goal for modern businesses. Many examples, case studies, and conceptual constructs are used to drive in the idea of how to create a performative enterprise.Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Alexander Tsigkas is a retired professor at Democritus University of Thrace (Athens, Greece). His research concentrates on cybernetics and performativity, and especially on the intelligence of natural-artificial-economic systems. He has published several scholarly articles on these topics, including lean enterprises, design-thinking, mass customization and supply chain management.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Performative Enterprise
Book Subtitle: Ideas and Case Studies on Moving Beyond the Quality Paradigm
Authors: Alexander Tsigkas
Series Title: Future of Business and Finance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81492-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-81491-5Published: 02 October 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-81494-6Published: 03 October 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-81492-2Published: 01 October 2021
Series ISSN: 2662-2467
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2475
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 248
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 66 illustrations in colour
Topics: Management, Industries