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Posted by Jo B in School of Business Blog on December 10, 2014
Deputy Head of School Professor Jo Brewis briefly outlines details of the thematic streams awaiting delegates of next summer’s 9th Critical Management Studies (CMS) Conference Martin Parker has already explained why Leicester’s management academics have regularly had the cheek to criticize the pervasiveness of managerialism. Managerialism, he argued, should not be seen as the natural […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 4th Wave Feminism, 9th CMS Conference, Accounting, Alternative Organisation, Alternatives, Artistic Production, Borders, Branding, Catastrophe, Civil Society, Cooperatives, Critical Friendship, Critical Management Studies, Cultural Animation, Cultural Governance, Culture, David Erdal, Eastern Europe, Ecological Accounting, Economic Education, Elites, Employment Relations, Entrepreneurs, Environmental Accounting, Environmentalism, Feminism, Finance, Financialization, Health Management, Heterodox, Industrial Relations, International Development, Jo Brewis, Management Education, Managerialism, Managers, Marketing, Martin Parker, Migration, Mobility, Neoliberalism, Not for Profit, Oliver James, Organisation Studies, Place Branding, Place Marketing, Political Economy, Principles of Responsible Management Education, Professions, Regional Governance, Social Studies of Finance (SSF), Stakeholder Theory, Stakeholders, The Arts, Unemployment, Vandana Shiva, VIDA, Voluntary Sector
Posted by Richard Courtney in School of Business Blog on December 3, 2014
On the day of 2014’s Autumn Statement, Richard Courtney, Lecturer in Employment Studies at the School, opposes the ideology of minimum taxation I used to get excited by budget statements. Listening to and subsequently dissecting how the government’s representatives say they are ‘balancing the books’ still reminds me of why I initially became a sociologist. […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Arts Council, August Statement, Austerity, Budget, Financial Crisis, George Osborne, Handbag Economics, Keynesianism, Mary Mellor, Money, Money Supply, Neoliberalism, Paul Krugman, Politics, Protectionism, Richard Courtney, Sociology, Tax, Taxation |
Posted by Fabian Frenzel in School of Business Blog on November 26, 2014
This week the School launches its Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME) student working group. Fabian Frenzel, Lecturer in the Political Economy of Organisation, explains why Founded in 2007, PRME is a UN led initiative which aims to redress the demonstrable lack of care and responsibility taken by managers of increasingly powerful global corporations. It […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Anti-Corporate, Critical Management Studies, Critique, Environmentalism, Ethics, Fair Pay, Management Education, Management Pedagogy, Neoliberalism, Politics, Poverty, Principles of Responsible Management Education, PRME, Self-Regulation, Self-Reporting, Social Movements, Student Centred Learning, Sustainability, Sustainability Reporting, Tax Evasion, tourism, UN, UN Global Compact, United Nations, University |
Posted by Paul Brook in School of Business Blog on November 19, 2014
In the age of much austerity and few alternatives, Paul Brook, Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Work and Employment at the School, makes a renewed claim for a politics of labour mobilisation Not long after Occupy Wall Street re-injected the idea of class (‘We are the 99%’) into America’s political consciousness, fast food workers […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Arun Gupta, Barack Obama, Burger King, Civil Disobedience, Class, Consumerism, Dunkin' Donuts, Employment Relations, Fast Food, Fight for 15, Flexibility, Ideology, Industrial Relations, Labour, Labour Market, Labour Mobilisation, Living Wage, McDonalds, Mobilisation, Neoliberalism, Occupy, Occupy Wall Street, Part-Time Work, Paul Brook, Pizza Hut, Politics, Poverty, Private Sector, SEIU, Sit-Down Strikes, Strike Action, Struggle, Taco Bell, Trade Unionism, UFCW, Union Rights, Walmart, Work and Employment
Posted by Rutvica Andrijasevic in School of Business Blog on November 10, 2014
Rutvica Andrijasevic, Lecturer in Employment Studies at the School, overviews some provisional findings from the research she has been doing into the ongoing protest While ‘Occupy Central’ has become the umbrella term applied to Hong Kong’s ongoing mobilisations, three less heeded groups are also playing very active roles within it. Scholarism, founded by Joshua […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Admiralty, Barricades, Benny Tau, Causeway Bay, Chan Kin, Chu Yiu, Citizenship, Consumer Culture, Consumerism, Cyber-Politics, Debate, Democracy, Electoral Reform, Ethnography, Federation of Students, Hong Kong, Joshua Wong, Kowloon, Mobilisation, Mong Kok, Occupy, Occupy Central, Occupy Central with Love and Peace, Occupy Hong Kong, Police, Politics, Poverty, Protest, Protest Camps, Public Debate, Scholarism, Sociology, Solidarity, Sovereignty, Student Protest, surveillance, Tiananmen Square |
Posted by Tomasz Wisniewski in School of Business Blog on October 21, 2014
Geoff Lightfoot and Tomasz Wisniewski, Senior Lecturers in the School’s Finance and Accounting Group, describe information asymmetry as a politically prevalent predicament about which we should all be concerned Knowledge production has always been a political matter to the extent that it has always coincided with the production of ignorance. The Ancient Egyptian priests protected […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged CCTV, Crime, document classification, education, Edward Snowden, Finance, GPS, Ignorance, Information, information asymmetry, Information Technology, Market Disruption, Market Failure, Mass Communication, Mass Media, media, networks, Noam Chomsky, Politics, power, propaganda, RFID, Stephen Lukes, surveillance, Technology, Terrorism, Transparency
Posted by Dan Bishop in School of Business Blog on October 8, 2014
Dan Bishop, Lecturer in Employment Studies at the School, challenges the ‘large firm’ paradigm on which apprenticeship-oriented politics has conventionally been based Apprenticeships and small businesses have been enjoying something of a renaissance within contemporary political discourse. With small firms now employing more than half of the UK’s private sector workforce, they have been described […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Apprenticeships, British Academy, Coalition Government, Comparisons, Economic Recovery, Engineering, Firm Size, Formal Training, Good Practice, Industrial Relations, Informal Learning, Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Large Firms, Learning, Private Sector, Skills, Small Business, Training, Vince Cable
Posted by Doris Ruth Eikhof in School of Business Blog on October 1, 2014
Doris Ruth Eikhof*, Senior Lecturer in Work and Employment at the School, underlines why there’s so much more to the problem of gender inequality than the task of getting the incentives right Those concerned about gender inequality have recently been given cause for optimism. Research in economics, according to Tyler Cowen’s New York Times upshot […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Ban Bossy Campaign, Behavioural Economics, Caveats, Cycles of Reinforcement, Discrimination, Engineering, Everyday Sexism, Gender, Gender Equality, Gender Gap, Gender Inequality, Global Gender Gap Report, Incentives, Inequality, John Stuart Mill, Knowledge, Knowledge Economy, Knowledge Work, New York Times, Sexism, Tyler Cowen
Posted by Thomas Swann in School of Business Blog on September 24, 2014
Thomas Swann and Konstantin Stoborod, Graduate Teaching Assistants at the School, reflect on their 2 year effort to bring Anarchist Practices and Management Studies together The 3rd Anarchist Studies Network conference took place between the 3rd and the 5th of September, at that network’s home, Loughborough University. As with the 2nd ASN conference two years […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Academia, Academic Activism, Academic Freedom, Activism, Activist Academia, Aesthetics, Anarchism, Anarchist Studies Network, Anarchist Workspaces, Autonomy, Business, Business School, Co-Operatives, Co-optation, Critical Management Studies, Decision Making, ephemera: theory and politics in organisation, Leadership, Management, Millennial Generation, Performativity, Practice, Proudhon, Revolution, Subversion, Systems Theory, Theory, Workspaces
Posted by Martin Parker in School of Business Blog on September 10, 2014
Martin Parker, Regular Blog Contributor and Professor of Organisation and Culture at the School, explains why management academics like him have an important role to play in the mitigation of corporate excesses Corporations have a very bad reputation. Most ordinary people tend to assume they are gigantic profit making machines that trample on anyone standing […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Accounting, Amazon, Anti-Capitalism, Anti-Corporate, Apple, Austin Mitchell MP, British Law, Capitalism, Corporate Charter, Corporate Ethics, Corporate Governance, Corporate Reform Collective, Critical Management Studies, Environmentalism, Executive Pay, Labour Party, Legal Theory, Limited Liability, Marks & Spencer, Martin Parker, McDonalds, Reputation, Shareholder Theory, Stakeholder Theory, Stakeholders, Starbucks, Sustainability, Tax, Tax Avoid, Tax Avoidance, Tax Break, Vodafone
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