Doris Ruth Eikhof, Senior Lecturer in Work and Employment at the School, shares some earlier* thoughts on the Research Excellence Framework (REF) In the past two years UK universities have frantically prepared their submissions to the sector-wide assessment of their research prowess and output, the Research Excellence Framework, or REF. They have evaluated research outputs, written […]
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Scottish Independence is too important to be left to the Politicians
Thomas Swann, Graduate Teaching Assistant at the School and the recent recipient of a Times Higher Education Best Essay Prize, encourages us to pay more attention to the Grassroots of the movement toward Scottish Independence Those who struggled through the recently televised debate between between Alex Salmond and Alistair Darling witnessed a pretty dour affair. […]
Combatting Fraud and Corruption within the Classroom
While fraud is part and parcel of everyday life we seem conditioned to ignore the signs. Matthew Higgins, Senior Lecturer in Marketing and Consumption at the School, proposes a curricular solution. Meet Frank “Fizzy” Onyeachonam. Until recently he resided in a luxury flat in the Docklands area of London, he drove a Porsche and he […]
Getting by with a little help from our friends
Professor Jo Brewis, Deputy Head of the School, discusses the under-acknowledged practical and interpersonal consequences of the methodological decisions researchers make The critical tradition of management scholarship with which Leicester’s name has become synonymous has been applied to a wide variety of organisational settings, it has employed numerous research methods and it has drawn on […]
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 […]
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