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 […]
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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 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 […]
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