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The antinomies of audit: opacity, instability and charisma in the economic governance of a Hooghly shipyard

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This paper rethinks audit regimes from the shadow-land of outsourcing in India. This is the arena of informalized work environments that are connected to global value chains and the revenue streams of an extractive liberalization state focused on public debt repayment. Based on ethnography of one such work-place, Venture Ltd shipyard in Howrah, it argues that in such settings audit creates opacity, disorders the work process and is part of value chains supported by diverse forms of charisma and racial distinction. As a result of these antinomies, testing events are times of friction rather than of the enactment of a shared calculative reason. Overall this case suggests that we need to focus more on the disordered capitalism supported by audit regimes.

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  • Bear, Laura, 2013. "The antinomies of audit: opacity, instability and charisma in the economic governance of a Hooghly shipyard," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 52597, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    • Handle: RePEc:ehl:lserod:52597
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    1. Kate Roll & Catherine Dolan & Dinah Rajak, 2021. "Remote (Dis)engagement: Shifting Corporate Risk to the ‘Bottom of the Pyramid’," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 52(4), pages 878-901, July.

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    Keywords

    audit; global value chains; liberalization; informalized labour; race;
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    JEL classification:

    • D74 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances; Revolutions
    • M42 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Accounting - - - Auditing

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