TY - BOOK ID - 85797765 TI - Megacorporation PY - 2021 SN - 1108626092 1108688853 1108613616 1108448631 9781108448635 1108428029 9781108428026 9781108626095 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Internet industry KW - Social responsibility of business KW - Big business KW - Conglomerate corporations KW - Social aspects KW - Alphabet Inc. KW - Chaebols KW - Conglomerate mergers KW - Conglomerates (Corporations) KW - Corporations, Conglomerate KW - Keiretsu KW - Mergers, Conglomerate KW - Consolidation and merger of corporations KW - Corporations KW - Industrial concentration KW - Competition KW - Economic concentration KW - Business KW - Business enterprises KW - Industries KW - Size KW - Alphabet Incorporated KW - Internet industry - United States KW - Conglomerate corporations - United States KW - Big business - Social aspects - United States KW - Social responsibility of business - United States KW - Firms and enterprises KW - Alphabet [Mountain View, Calif.] UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85797765 AB - 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. ER -