Posted by Angus Cameron in School of Business Blog on May 12, 2015
Deputy Head of School, Angus Cameron, reflects upon one of the stranger tasks he has been asked to perform: being a central character in a murder mystery novel. Working as an academic often involves slipping between identities. The person at the front of the lecture theatre is not quite the same person that inhabits the […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Academia, Academic Freedom, Academic Journals, Aesthetics, Alternative Organisation, Art, Artistic Production, Corporate Governance, Fiction, Georges Bataille, Headless, Identity, off-shore finance, Organisation Studies, Performance Management, Performativity, Policy Making, Realism, Tax Avoidance, Tax Evasion |
Posted by Gibson Burrell in School of Business Blog on May 6, 2015
Former Head of School, Professor Gibson Burrell, uncovers a series of uncomfortable parallels between managerialism and the militaRy At first sight, it appears as if the discipline of ‘business and management’ has no room for a debate on ‘the organization of destruction’ and the use of well-considered techniques of administration in acts of unspeakable violence […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Call for Papers, CIA, Consumption, Ethics, Management, Max Weber, Military, Military Force, Operations rersearch, Organisation, Organisation Studies, Rationality, Strategy, Taylorism, Violence, War, Zygmunt Bauman
Posted by jcromby in School of Business Blog on April 29, 2015
Recently appointed Reader in Psychology at the School, John Cromby, provides a disturbingly plausible account of why Nigel Farage’s rhetoric has been so successful. The United Kingdom’s electorate will soon pass judgment on David Cameron’s performance of what is perhaps the nation’s most important managerial role: the Prime Minister. The competition to beat (or join) […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Campaign Management, Democracy, Emotions, EU, European Union, General Election, Image Management, Immigration, Impression Management, Neoliberalism, Nigel Farage, Populism, Reason, Rhetoric, UKIP |
Posted by Chris Grocott in School of Business Blog on April 22, 2015
Lecturer in Management and Economic History at the School, Chris Grocott, reckons so. This year, I ran the inaugural third year BA Management Studies module ‘Organisations in Economic Context’. It analyses how the political economy over the past thirty years has had a profound effect on the state and trade unions, as well as on […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Adam Smith, BA Management and Economics, BA Management Studies, Critical Management Studies, Economics, Free Market, Freedom, Gambling Industry, Gibraltar, Hayek, History, Neoliberalism, Political Economy, Political Philosophy, Politics, Public Finance Initiatives, Thatcher, Tony Blair |
Posted by Stephen Dunne in School of Business Blog on April 15, 2015
Stephen Dunne (henceforth SD): Can I ask you to recount, when you set out on the book, what you were trying to do and in relation to what body of work? WD: The main question I had, following on from my PhD, concerned competition and competitiveness as forms of justification, or as sources of […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Biopolitics, Bob Jessop, Capitalism, Chicago School, Competition, Competitiveness, Critical Management Studies, Critique, Deirdre McCloskey, Donald Mckenzie, Economic Policy, Economics, Economy & Society, Efficiency, Entrepreneurialism, Entrepreneurs, ephemera: theory and politics in organisation, Eve Chiapello, Finance, Financialization, Friedrich Hayek, Governmentality, John Maynard Keynes, Joseph Schumpeter, Karl Popper, Keynes, Keynesianism, Laurent Thevenot, Leadership, Legitimacy, Legitimation, Liberalism, London Riots, Luc Boltanski, Management, Management Gurus, Managerialism, Marxism, Max Weber, Michael Porter, Michel Callon, Michel Foucault, Milton Friedman, Money, Mont Pelerin Society, Neoliberalism, NHS, Paul Mason, Philip Mirowski, Pierre Bourdieu, Policy Making, Political Economy, Politics, Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Russell Brand, Scottish Independence, Scottish Referendum, Social Class, Social Studies of Finance (SSF), Sociology, Strategy, Tax, The New Spirit of Capitalism, Thomas Piketty, Violence |
Posted by Martin Parker in School of Business Blog on April 1, 2015
With all the media hype surrounding the forthcoming Critical Management Studies conference, Martin Parker reminds us of something which might otherwise have escaped our attention Some bones were found under a car park in Leicester recently. The City, County and University have all enthusiastically exploited this discovery for tourism and student recruitment purposes. The national […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Academic Freedom, Corporatism, Critical Management Studies, Economics, england, Inequality, Liberalism, Managerialism, Mass Communication, Mass Media, media, Media Appearances, Nationalism, Obedience, Occupy, Richard III
Posted by Benjamin Hopkins in School of Business Blog on March 25, 2015
Recently appointed Lecturer in Work and Employment, Benjamin Hopkins, ponders a little about how he has been represented in the popular media, and a lot about how research subjects are represented within academic media. The forthcoming election has sparked a flurry of television programmes discussing immigration: Channel 4’s UKIP: The First 100 Days, ITV’s Tonight: […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged ABS, BBC, Channel 4, Election, Green Party, Immigration, Interview, Interviewing, Jo Brewis, Mass Media, media, Media Appearances, Natalie Bennett, NHS, Plaid Cymru, Public Debate, Qualitative Research, REF, Representation, Research, Research Ethics, Research Methodology, Research Methods, The Smiths, UKIP, Week In Week Out
Posted by Chris Land in School of Business Blog on March 18, 2015
Our recently appointed Reader in Work and Organisation, Christopher Land, takes it upon himself to dethrone the anti-working class morals symptomatic within films such as, though by no means limited to, Kingsman Two weeks ago I saw Kingsman: a mash up of Shaw’s Pygmalion and a Roger Moore era James Bond movie, complete with insane […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Bourdieu, Chavs, Class Politics, Class War, Colin Firth, Consumption, Council Estates, Creative Industry, Cultural Capital, Culture, Culture Industry, education, Kingsman, Labour Market, NEETs, Owen Jones, Privilege, Proletariat, Social Class, Social Mobility, Sociology, Training, Work, Working Class |
Posted by dharvie in School of Business Blog on February 11, 2015
Senior Lecturer in Finance and Political Economy, David Harvie, suggests the UK’s nascent social investment market is more a matter of imposing market discipline and less a matter of ‘doing well by doing good’. David Cameron’s ‘Big Society’ star lit up the post-crisis landscape when it was first introduced in November 2009. As students of […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Austerity, Big Society, Big Society Capital, Bonds, Capitalism, Competition, Competitiveness, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), David Cameron, Department for Work, Derivatives, Economics, Finance, Financial Crisis, Financialization, investment, NEETs, Neoliberalism, New Economics Foundation, Pensions and Employment, Politics, Real Subsumption, Social Finance, Social Impact Bonds, Social Investment, Social Movements, Social Reform, Social Return on Investment, Third Way |
Posted by Chris Grocott in School of Business Blog on February 4, 2015
Lecturer in Management and Economic History at the School, Chris Grocott, outlines a little known escapade of a largely known economist Friedrich Hayek’s ideas on how economies should be organised, or on how state power should be restrained, have affected us all. Daniel Stedman Jones’s Masters of the Universe selected Hayek, alongside Milton Friedman, […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Economic Policy, Economics, Economy & Society, Fascism, Financialization, Franco, Free Market, Freedom, Friedrich Hayek, Gibraltar, Hayek, Keynes, Labour Market, Liberalism, Liberty, Neoliberalism, Nobel Prize, Political Economy, Politics, Reagan, Spain, Thatcher, The Road to Serfdom, Totalitarianism |
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