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 Chris Grocott in School of Business Blog on February 4, 2015
Lecturer in Management and Economic History at the School, Chris Grocott, outlines a little known escapade of a largely known economist Friedrich Hayek’s ideas on how economies should be organised, or on how state power should be restrained, have affected us all. Daniel Stedman Jones’s Masters of the Universe selected Hayek, alongside Milton Friedman, […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Economic Policy, Economics, Economy & Society, Fascism, Financialization, Franco, Free Market, Freedom, Friedrich Hayek, Gibraltar, Hayek, Keynes, Labour Market, Liberalism, Liberty, Neoliberalism, Nobel Prize, Political Economy, Politics, Reagan, Spain, Thatcher, The Road to Serfdom, Totalitarianism |
Posted by Angus Cameron in School of Business Blog on January 28, 2015
Amidst the occasionally apocalyptic commentaries on the likely consequences of Greece’s recent general election results, Angus Cameron, the Deputy Director of School, drives a wedge between the potential loss of the Euro and the historical ‘project’ of Europe Syriza’s victory has stimulated renewed speculation that Greece might withdraw from the Euro, putting the entire European […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Bureaucracy, Crisis, Democracy, Economic Crisis, Election, EU, Euro, Financial Crisis, Financialization, Greece, Grexit, History, Identity, Nationalism, Politics, Refuge, Syriza |
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 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 |
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