What Business Schools could learn from My Local Bakery
Professor Martin Parker, Director of Research at the School, challenges the arguments underpinning mainstream accounts of Business and Management within his recently published co-edited collection. Powerful people often tell us that economic life provides us with no alternatives. Bankers must be paid sickening amounts, workers’ wages must be kept down, small organizations can’t compete, and […]
Buy Nothing Day: Critical Management in Action
On the day after Black Friday, Jennifer Smith Maguire, Senior Lecturer in Cultural Production and Consumption at the School, discusses the goals and history of ‘Buy Nothing Day’. Saturday 30 November is ‘Buy Nothing Day’, an annual one-day event that invites us to step off the shopping treadmill and think critically about the place of […]
Management is too Important Not to Debate
Higher Education providers have experienced much less turbulent times than these. The stormy climate within contemporary United Kingdom Higher Education, for its part, is presided over by a coalition government which, for many, has over-hastily introduced poorly-considered policies that have largely served to foster, rather than reverse, or even hasten, the much longer drawn out […]
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