ephemera: theory and politics in organisation
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 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 Melanie Simms in School of Business Blog on February 5, 2014
Melanie Simms, Professor of Work and Employment at the School, highlights the under-reported blind-spot in the over-reported fact of an emergent economic recovery: today’s youth are unlikely to be experiencing it. It is roughly a decade since researchers and policy makers began raising serious concerns about the approximately one million young people who are Not […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Apprenticeships, Austerity, Bureaucracy, Career Guidance, Economic Recovery, Employability, ephemera: theory and politics in organisation, European Union, Financial Crisis, Flexibility, JobSeeker's Allowance, Labour Force Survey, Labour Market, NEETs, OECD, Training, Unemployment, Youth Unemployment, Zero-Hours Contract
Posted by Thomas Swann in School of Business Blog on November 20, 2013
Management and anarchism have something very superficial in common – most people loathe them. Nevertheless, on Tuesday the 29th of October, a workshop held at the School’s Centre for Philosophy and Political Economy explored what else can be said about this most peculiar of intersections. The event featured talks from Liam Barrington-Bush, author of Anarchists […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Anarchism, Centre for Philosophy and Political Economy (CPPE), Control, ephemera: theory and politics in organisation, Everyday Tasks, Fabian Frenzel, Hierarchy, Konstantin Stoborod, Liam Barrington-Bush, Management, Occupy, Protest Camps, Social Movements, Thomas Swann
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