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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      06 April 2021
      08 April 2021
      ISBN:
      9781108626095
      9781108428026
      9781108448635
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108626095
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.42kg, 244 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.35kg, 244 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Technology Management, Engineering, Business Ethics, Management: General Interest, Management
      Series:
      Business, Value Creation, and Society
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    Subjects:
    Technology Management, Engineering, Business Ethics, Management: General Interest, Management
    Series:
    Business, Value Creation, and Society
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    When the scale and scope of influence that a corporation wields is so great that it eclipses that of nearly all other corporations combined, it attains megacorporate status. Whelan proposes that, amongst the current big tech cohort, it is only Alphabet, the parent company of Google, that can be categorized as such. In advancing a novel philosophical perspective, and aspiring to an amoral ideal of analysis, Whelan reveals Alphabet's activities to be informed by the ideology of infinite times, consequently transforming how we experience the past, present and the future at personal and social levels. By shining a light on such corporate existential impacts, Megacorporation: The Infinite Times of Alphabet opens up a new field of research that makes the philosophical analysis of business and society an everyday concern. This novel study on corporate social influence will appeal to readers interested in big tech, business and society, political economy and organization studies.

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    ‘Glen Whelan's book, Megacorporation, offers a unique and compelling critique on the way our lives are captured and framed by megacorporations with their vast reach and their insatiable quest for our data.'

    Kirsten Martin - William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of Technology Ethics, University of Notre Dame  

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