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Posted by Ian Clark in School of Business Blog on May 16, 2014
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 […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Astra Zeneca, Centre for Sustainable Work and Employment Futures (CSWEF), Employment Relations, Finance, Financialization, Ownership, Pfizer, Stakeholder Theory, Stakeholders, Sustainability |
Posted by James Fitchett in School of Business Blog on April 30, 2014
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 […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Austerity, Climate Change, Consumer Culture, Consumerism, Consumption, Credit, Culture, Entertainment, Gaming, Industrial Relations, Leisure Industry, Marketing, Midlands, Minecraft, Mining, National Union of Mineworkers, Nottingham, Simulation, Sustainability, UK Coal, Unemployment, Working Class, Xbox Live |
Posted by Richard Courtney in School of Business Blog on April 23, 2014
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 […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Billy Bragg, britain, British Broadcasting Corporation, britishness, Citizenship, Colonialism, Critical Management Studies, Culture, england, englishness, Imperialism, Jeremy Paxman, local government, Management, Multiculturalism, National Health Service, National Trust, Nationalism, Post-colonialism, Roger Scruton, Simon Heffer, Social Class, Social Justice |
Posted by Glynne Williams in School of Business Blog on April 16, 2014
The generation game is getting personal, according to Glynne Williams and Vanessa Beck. ‘Generation gap’ once referred to the gulf in culture and understanding between teenagers and their parents. Now that the baby boomers are approaching old age, however, it is made to refer to a pernicious economic divide. What began in 2008 as a […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Austerity, Baby Boomers, Collective Bargaining, David Willets, Employment Relations, Entitlement, Financial Crisis, Generation, Housing Market, Individualism, Industrial Relations, Intergenerational Bargaining, Intergenerational Conflict, NHS, Pensions, Unemployment, Welfare, Youth Unemployment, Zero-Hours Contract |
Posted by Martin Parker in School of Business Blog on April 9, 2014
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 […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Academic Freedom, Censorship, Critical Management Studies, Gagging Clause, Higher Education, Informa, Libel, Litigation, Management, Managerialism, Routledge, Social Science, Taylor and Francis, University Management, University Politics |
Posted by Olga Suhomlinova in School of Business Blog on March 27, 2014
Dr Olga Suhomlinova, Lecturer in Management at the School, responds to a question which she now finds herself expected to answer “So, what do you think about Crimea?” This is the most frequent question I have had to field during the past month, for I am Russian. What I could have written about this Wales-size […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Aivazovsky, Angela Merkel, Census Data, Conflict, Crimea, Demography, Economics, Ethnicity, Federalism, Florence Nightingale, Hilary Clinton, History, Mary Seacole, Military Force, Nationalism, Newarke Houses, Political Economy, Politics, Property Disputes, Property Rights, Pushkin, Russia, Territorial Dispute, Territory, The Charge of the Light Brigade, Toruism, tourism, Venice Commission, Vladimir Putin, War, Wine |
Posted by Jennifer Smith Maguire in School of Business Blog on March 21, 2014
Jennifer Smith Maguire, Senior Lecturer in Cultural Production and Consumption at the School, outlines the motivation behind an experiment-in-abstinence undertaken by some of her freshman tutees. As a relative newcomer to the School, I’ve spent much of the past year thinking about what it means to teach ‘Critical Management Studies’ (CMS). Across the modules I […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged BA Management and Economics, BA Management Studies, Buy Nothing Day, Critical Management Studies, Facebook, Instagram, Jennifer Smith Maguire, Management Education, Management Pedagogy, Market Behaviour, Social Media, Social Media Free Day, Student Centred Learning, Tutorials, Twitter, Undergraduate |
Posted by Melanie Simms in School of Business Blog on March 12, 2014
March 2014 saw the announcement of no less than eleven (11) separate investments into projects within the broad area of work and employment. The small grants of up to £2,500 will further boost the School of Management’s profile in this area since it merged with the Centre for Labour Market Studies (CLMS). Some of the […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Anarchism, Austerity, Bob Carter, Car Wash, Centre for Labour Market Studies (CLMS), Chris Grocott, Distance Learning, Elke Weik, Foxconn, Funding, Future Research, Gibraltar, Glynne Williams, Grey Economy, Heidi Ashton, Henrietta O' Connor, Heritage, History, Ian Clark, Jo Grady, John Goodwin, Katharine Venter, Library Sector, Management Pedagogy, Martin Quinn, NHS, Norbert Elias, Older Workers, Paradata and Marginalia, Paul Brook, Performance Management, Richard Courtney, Rutvica Andrijasevic, Sarah Robinson, Student Experience, Trade Unionism, Turkey, Vanessa Beck, Will Green, Wine, Work and Employment, Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS), World Congress of the International Sociological Association, Young Workers |
Posted by Martin Parker in School of Business Blog on March 5, 2014
Martin Parker, Professor and Culture and Organisation at the School, underlines the apparent paradox of the popularity of anti-corporate sentiment within contemporary culture. The tie-in merchandising costs HOW much?! julochka President Business is a bad guy. We know that because he is the chief executive of the Octan Corporation. He also has bad hair, control issues, […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Anti-Capitalism, Anti-Corporate, CEO, Commodification, Consumption, Corporate Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Culture, Cynicism, LEGO, Management, Management Today, Marketing, Martin Parker, MBA, Merchandising, Niche Marketing, Tax, Tax Avoidance, Tax Evasion, The Conversation |
Posted by Stephen Dunne in School of Business Blog on February 26, 2014
The School’s Centre for Philosophy and Political Economy (CPPE) celebrated its 10 year anniversary towards the end of last year by hosting a 3 day conference. One of the highlights of the events was a round table discussion on the Nature and Purpose of the Corporation, a video-recording of which is available to watch here. […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Agency Theory, Alternative Organisation, Business Ethics, Centre for Philosophy and Political Economy (CPPE), Corporate Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Critical Management Studies, Jeroen Veldman, Legal Theory, Martin Parker, Responsibility of Intellectuals, Sam Mansell, Shareholder Theory, Stakeholder Theory, Stephen Dunne |
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