Critical Management Studies at Leicester
This time next year, the School will be preparing to welcome over 500 delegates to the 9th International Conference in Critical Management Studies. Professor Martin Parker explains what the conference will be about and why it will be so important. How can a School of Management have the cheek to be ‘critical’ of management? Schools […]
Censoring Academics works well for Publishers
Kenneth Weir, Lecturer in Accountancy at the School, examines the popularity of a controversial article which he, David Harvie, Geoff Lightfoot and Simon Lilley, recently published (about publishing) In 2012, the four of us published a piece examining the not very well concealed relationship between the profit margins enjoyed by large commercial publishers and the […]
Made within/outside the EU: what’s the difference?
Dr. Rutvica Andrijasevic, Lecturer in Employment Studies at the School, describes her ongoing research into Foxconn’s under-documented European operations In a dormitory beside a railway station there are several hundred migrant workers getting ready for – or else just returning from – their 12-hour shifts in the nearby Foxconn factory. Most of them were recruited […]
How to Sell Success, Failure and Fanaticism? Understand the Customer!
Georgios Patsiaouras, Lecturer in Marketing and Consumption at the School, draws sobering lessons from the popularity of the recent Hollywood Blockbuster, The Wolf of Wall Street. Martin Scorsese’s latest film is an adaptation of Jordan Belfort’s memoir of the same name. Critics have lamented the film’s unachieved goal of thematically and stylistically suffusing the fast […]
The School of Management in Hong Kong: Then and Now
Martin Quinn, Director of Distance Learning and Lecturer in Regional Development at the School, underlines why he is looking forward to his trip to Hong Kong. In the early mid 1990s the Universities of Leicester and Hong Kong were at the forefront of the development of Distance Learning in Hong Kong with the launch of […]
How is Ownership at Astra Zeneca Open for Pfizer’s Business?
Ian Clark, Professor of Employment Relations at the School, discusses a controversial contemporary acquisition bid through the concepts of financialisation, ownership and employee relations. Astra Zeneca is the UK’s second largest pharmaceuticals firm: it sells £7 billion worth of drugs every year and contributes 2.3% to total UK exports. The firm employs 51,000 workers globally with 7,000 in […]
Thoresby Colliery and the Art of Minecraft
James Fitchett, Professor of Marketing and Consumer Research at the School, traces the historical evolution of socio-economic illness in a Midlands city UK Coal recently announced the closure of the last remaining coal mines in Britain. The proposal will see the pits face a phased shutdown, with UK Coal’s six surface mines being sold off […]
Managing Englishness
In the run up to Saint George’s Day, Richard Courtney, Lecturer in Employment Studies at the School, underlines why the nature of ‘Englishness’ should matter to scholars and practitioners of management I’m not usually one for name-dropping but in 2007 I met Billy Bragg at a seminar on Englishness in Contemporary Britain. This was a […]
Academic Freedoms and the University Ltd.
Voltaire once wrote “To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize”. Professor of Organisation and Culture Martin Parker recently found out precisely what he meant. I had fundamental differences of opinion with the managers of the place I used to work. After having left “University Ltd.”, I decided to outline […]
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