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The Apprentice – article in The Conversation

by David Kreps · November 5, 2015

Programme Name: The Apprentice 2015 – TX: n/a – Episode: The Apprentice 2015 (No. Generics) – Picture Shows: Karren Brady, Lord Sugar, Claude Littner – (C) Boundless – Photographer: Jim Marks

With colleagues Marie Griffiths and Maria Kutar, David published an article, in November 2015, in The Conversation, about the impressions given by the popular TV programme, The Apprentice, of what things are like in the Boardroom. How realistic is The Apprentice Boardroom?

By David Kreps

"This book questions the nature of the business and social information systems so ubiquitous in contemporary life. Linking positivism, individualism, and market-fundamentalist economics at the root of these systems, it critiques the philosophical ground of this triumvirate as fundamentally against nature. Connecting counter-philosophies of the subject as a natural part of existence, with more collectivist and ecological economics, it presents a historical critique of the development of the academic field of information systems and offers a complex view of the nature of Nature through which we might reshape our approach to technology and to our economies to overcome the existential threat of climate change. As such, it will appeal to philosophers, social theorists, and scholars of science and technology studies with interests in the environment and ecology, as well as those working in the field of information systems."

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