Posted by awynne in School of Business Blog on June 24, 2015
Senior Lecturer in Public Financial Management at the School, Andrew Wynne, considers the explicitly contested – and implicitly concealed – issue of good governance in Nigeria There have been numerous calls for a more independent judiciary within Nigeria. While the constitution allows for such autonomy, Nigeria’s judiciary has been notoriously susceptible to external pressure, particularly […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Constitutional Reform, Corporate Governance, Development Economics, Finance, Funding, Governance, Industrial Relations, International Development, International Finance, Legal Theory, Nigeria, Oil, Politics, Public Finance Initiatives, Public Financial Management, Regional Governance, Trade Unionism |
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 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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