Critical Management Studies
Posted by hconnolly in School of Business Blog on February 21, 2019
By Rachael Elliott, Head of Thought Leadership, Business Continuity Institute & Paul Baines, Professor of Political Marketing, University of Leicester. When the referendum result was announced in June 2016, few predicted the turmoil the UK Government would find themselves in just weeks from the date set to leave the European Union. Within six months, the […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Brexit, Brexit planning, Business, Business School, Critical Management Studies, Economics, Financial planning, Management Education, Politics, Public Debate |
Posted by Fabian Frenzel in School of Business Blog on February 17, 2016
We’ve just published our third report to the United Nations Principle of Responsible Management Education (PRME) Initiative. Fabian Frenzel, PRME Officer and Lecturer in the Political Economy of Organisation, explains why. The Leicester Model emphasises an interdisciplinary, holistic and critical view upon management education. Our research, teaching and public engagement agendas attempt to expand the […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Critical Management Studies, Environmentalism, Management Education, Management Pedagogy, Poverty, PRME, Student Centred Learning, United Nations |
Posted by Marton Racz in School of Business Blog on December 2, 2015
An ongoing discussion of alternative models of Higher Education, as Marton Racz reports, is generating a series of proposals as to how universities might work along more cooperative lines. Back in July, during a workshop at Leicester’s 9th International Critical Management Studies Conference, we discussed alternative models of Higher Education within the context of business […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alternative Organisation, Alternatives, Business School, Cooperatives, Critical Management Studies, Higher Education, Jacques ranciere, Living Wage, Management, Management Education, Management Pedagogy, Mike Neary, Organisation, pedagogy, Politics, Social Science, Social Science Centre (SSC), University Politics, Walter Benjamin |
Posted by Chris Grocott in School of Business Blog on April 22, 2015
Lecturer in Management and Economic History at the School, Chris Grocott, reckons so. This year, I ran the inaugural third year BA Management Studies module ‘Organisations in Economic Context’. It analyses how the political economy over the past thirty years has had a profound effect on the state and trade unions, as well as on […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Adam Smith, BA Management and Economics, BA Management Studies, Critical Management Studies, Economics, Free Market, Freedom, Gambling Industry, Gibraltar, Hayek, History, Neoliberalism, Political Economy, Political Philosophy, Politics, Public Finance Initiatives, Thatcher, Tony Blair |
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 […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Biopolitics, Bob Jessop, Capitalism, Chicago School, Competition, Competitiveness, Critical Management Studies, Critique, Deirdre McCloskey, Donald Mckenzie, Economic Policy, Economics, Economy & Society, Efficiency, Entrepreneurialism, Entrepreneurs, ephemera: theory and politics in organisation, Eve Chiapello, Finance, Financialization, Friedrich Hayek, Governmentality, John Maynard Keynes, Joseph Schumpeter, Karl Popper, Keynes, Keynesianism, Laurent Thevenot, Leadership, Legitimacy, Legitimation, Liberalism, London Riots, Luc Boltanski, Management, Management Gurus, Managerialism, Marxism, Max Weber, Michael Porter, Michel Callon, Michel Foucault, Milton Friedman, Money, Mont Pelerin Society, Neoliberalism, NHS, Paul Mason, Philip Mirowski, Pierre Bourdieu, Policy Making, Political Economy, Politics, Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Russell Brand, Scottish Independence, Scottish Referendum, Social Class, Social Studies of Finance (SSF), Sociology, Strategy, Tax, The New Spirit of Capitalism, Thomas Piketty, Violence |
Posted by Martin Parker in School of Business Blog on April 1, 2015
With all the media hype surrounding the forthcoming Critical Management Studies conference, Martin Parker reminds us of something which might otherwise have escaped our attention Some bones were found under a car park in Leicester recently. The City, County and University have all enthusiastically exploited this discovery for tourism and student recruitment purposes. The national […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Academic Freedom, Corporatism, Critical Management Studies, Economics, england, Inequality, Liberalism, Managerialism, Mass Communication, Mass Media, media, Media Appearances, Nationalism, Obedience, Occupy, Richard III |
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 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 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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