Posted by hconnolly in School of Business Blog on April 26, 2018
In this blog Dr Ekaterina Svetlova discusses her recently published book – an insider perspective on the investment industry – arguing that the industry should be seen more as a chain of multiple intermediaries who influence how savers’ money is spent and take shares of the profits. Book by Diane-Laure Arjaliès, Philip Grant, Iain Hardie, […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Ethnography, Finance, investment |
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 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 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 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 Tomasz Wisniewski in School of Business Blog on October 21, 2014
Geoff Lightfoot and Tomasz Wisniewski, Senior Lecturers in the School’s Finance and Accounting Group, describe information asymmetry as a politically prevalent predicament about which we should all be concerned Knowledge production has always been a political matter to the extent that it has always coincided with the production of ignorance. The Ancient Egyptian priests protected […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged CCTV, Crime, document classification, education, Edward Snowden, Finance, GPS, Ignorance, Information, information asymmetry, Information Technology, Market Disruption, Market Failure, Mass Communication, Mass Media, media, networks, Noam Chomsky, Politics, power, propaganda, RFID, Stephen Lukes, surveillance, Technology, Terrorism, Transparency |
Posted by Georgios Patsiaouras in School of Business Blog on June 2, 2014
Georgios Patsiaouras, Lecturer in Marketing and Consumption at the School, draws sobering lessons from the popularity of the recent Hollywood Blockbuster, The Wolf of Wall Street. Martin Scorsese’s latest film is an adaptation of Jordan Belfort’s memoir of the same name. Critics have lamented the film’s unachieved goal of thematically and stylistically suffusing the fast […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Arthur Miller, Cinema, Consumer Culture, Consumerism, Consumption, Film, Finance, Financial Crisis, Hedonism, Hollywood, Insider Trading, Jordan Belfort, Marketing, Martin Scorsese, Sales, Salesmanship, Willy Loman, Wolf of Wall Street |
Posted by Ian Clark in School of Business Blog on May 16, 2014
Ian Clark, Professor of Employment Relations at the School, discusses a controversial contemporary acquisition bid through the concepts of financialisation, ownership and employee relations. Astra Zeneca is the UK’s second largest pharmaceuticals firm: it sells £7 billion worth of drugs every year and contributes 2.3% to total UK exports. The firm employs 51,000 workers globally with 7,000 in […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Astra Zeneca, Centre for Sustainable Work and Employment Futures (CSWEF), Employment Relations, Finance, Financialization, Ownership, Pfizer, Stakeholder Theory, Stakeholders, Sustainability |
Posted by Nigel Iyer in School of Business Blog on December 10, 2013
Nigel Krishna Iyer, Independent Fraud and Corruption Investigator and Teaching Fellow at the School, discusses the rationale underpinning the new CPD course Defence against Fraud and Corruption. As a fraud and corruption investigator I’ve travelled the world, delving into murky financial corners, interviewing informants and whistle blowers, confronting criminals, and even sifting through offices and trash […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Accounting, Business School, Enron, Finance, Fraud and Corruption, James Bond, Management, Management Education, Masters Level Option, Matthew Higgins, MBA, National Fraud Authority, Nigel Krishna Iyer, Peter Jackson, Risk Management, Simon Lilley, UK Bribery Act, UK Home Office |
Posted by Yuval Millo in School of Business Blog on November 8, 2013
Yuval Millo joined the School of Management in September 2012 as Professor of Social Studies of Finance and Accounting. He is a leading figure in the emergent field of Social Studies of Finance, a field which Juan Felipe Espinosa Cristia, a PhD Researcher at the School, interviewed him about very recently. Within this series of four […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Accounting, Actor Network Theory, Algorithmic Trading, Bruno Latour, Economic Crisis, Finance, Financial Crisis, High Frequency Trading, Market Devices, Michel Callon, Performativity, Risk, Social Network Analysis, Social Studies of Finance (SSF), Trading, Working Group on Responsible Innovation in Finance, Yuval Millo |
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