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Article: Infrastructural capitalism in China: Alibaba, its corporate culture and three infrastructural mechanisms
Title | Infrastructural capitalism in China: Alibaba, its corporate culture and three infrastructural mechanisms |
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Keywords | Alibaba China corporate culture digital economy E-commerce infrastructural capitalism phygital infrastructure platform economy public-private partnerships sensorial infrastructure |
Issue Date | 1-Mar-2024 |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
Citation | Global Media and China, 2024, v. 9, n. 1, p. 11-30 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Contrasting existing scholarship in ‘socialism with Chinese characteristics’, this article builds on the theorisation of infrastructural capitalism as an emerging global-capitalist project entangled with both China’s state-socialist ideology and the latest nationalistic revitalisation agenda, serving both political and commercial goals, yet also rendering discontent and resistance in daily business and employment practices. Through participant observation across 13 Alibaba departments or subsidiaries, semi-structured interviews with workers in Alibaba and other Chinese platform companies, and the analysis of corporate documentation and media reports, our ethnographic study highlights the ‘physical and digital (phygital)’ nature of infrastructure, and theorises how discursive, symbolic, and sensorial techniques are adopted to direct and sustain infrastructural capitalism in daily organisational setting through three unique mechanisms: public-private partnerships, corporate prosumption networks (CPN) and imagineered global competition. This article’s key contributions are threefold: to dissect the intertwined discursive, symbolic and affective mechanisms through which the ‘invisible’ infrastructures of capitalism are made ‘visible’ and ‘sensible’; unpack the variegated impacts and inherent dilemmas of infrastructural capitalism; and reimagine the possibility of individual resistance and systemic transgression. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/344621 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 3.2 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Tse, Tommy | - |
dc.contributor.author | Pun, Ngai | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-07-31T06:22:36Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2024-07-31T06:22:36Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2024-03-01 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Global Media and China, 2024, v. 9, n. 1, p. 11-30 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 2059-4364 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/344621 | - |
dc.description.abstract | <p>Contrasting existing scholarship in ‘socialism with Chinese characteristics’, this article builds on the theorisation of infrastructural capitalism as an emerging global-capitalist project entangled with both China’s state-socialist ideology and the latest nationalistic revitalisation agenda, serving both political and commercial goals, yet also rendering discontent and resistance in daily business and employment practices. Through participant observation across 13 Alibaba departments or subsidiaries, semi-structured interviews with workers in Alibaba and other Chinese platform companies, and the analysis of corporate documentation and media reports, our ethnographic study highlights the ‘physical and digital (phygital)’ nature of infrastructure, and theorises how discursive, symbolic, and sensorial techniques are adopted to direct and sustain infrastructural capitalism in daily organisational setting through three unique mechanisms: public-private partnerships, corporate prosumption networks (CPN) and imagineered global competition. This article’s key contributions are threefold: to dissect the intertwined discursive, symbolic and affective mechanisms through which the ‘invisible’ infrastructures of capitalism are made ‘visible’ and ‘sensible’; unpack the variegated impacts and inherent dilemmas of infrastructural capitalism; and reimagine the possibility of individual resistance and systemic transgression.</p> | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | SAGE Publications | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Global Media and China | - |
dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | - |
dc.subject | Alibaba | - |
dc.subject | China | - |
dc.subject | corporate culture | - |
dc.subject | digital economy | - |
dc.subject | E-commerce | - |
dc.subject | infrastructural capitalism | - |
dc.subject | phygital infrastructure | - |
dc.subject | platform economy | - |
dc.subject | public-private partnerships | - |
dc.subject | sensorial infrastructure | - |
dc.title | Infrastructural capitalism in China: Alibaba, its corporate culture and three infrastructural mechanisms | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1177/20594364241226846 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85182166982 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 9 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 1 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 11 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 30 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 2059-4372 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 2059-4372 | - |