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 Simon Lilley in School of Business Blog on January 22, 2015
Head of School, Professor Simon Lilley and Director of Research, Professor Martin Parker, discuss the problems of comparing apples, pears and potatoes, in the ranking of business and management research. We live in a world of rankings nowadays. There are league tables for schools, washing machines and doctor’s surgeries. In a complicated world, it’s not […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Accountability, Accounting, Auditing, Competition, Competitiveness, Higher Education, Management Education, Management Pedagogy, PR, Public Debate, Public Sector, Publishing, Rankings, Research, Research Ethics, Research Excellence Framework, Research Methodology, Spin |
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 Doris Ruth Eikhof in School of Business Blog on September 4, 2014
Doris Ruth Eikhof, Senior Lecturer in Work and Employment at the School, shares some earlier* thoughts on the Research Excellence Framework (REF) In the past two years UK universities have frantically prepared their submissions to the sector-wide assessment of their research prowess and output, the Research Excellence Framework, or REF. They have evaluated research outputs, written […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Action Research, Bureaucracy, Business School, Critical Management Studies, Impact, Ivory Tower, Knowledge, Leo Tolstoj, Management, Management Education, Max Weber, Organisation Studies, Policy Making, Practitioner Research, Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Public Sector, REF, Research Excellence Framework, Research Outputs, Science as a Vocation, Social Science, Steve Jobs, University Management, University Politics |
Posted by Marton Racz in School of Business Blog on August 13, 2014
Marton Racz and Thomas Swann, Graduate Teaching Assistants at the School, explain why they are organising a PhD conference on Critical Management Studies (CMS) It is just over three years since Martin Parker and Robyn Thomas published their influential description of the concerns which a critical academic journal should have. Parker and Thomas – renowned […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alvesson and Wilmott, Analogy, Application, Childcare, Conference, Critical Management Studies, Critique, Evolution, Foucault, Gender, Institutionalisation, Laclau, Management, Management Education, Martin Parker, Metaphor, Organisation, Organization, PhD, PhD Conference, Postcolonial Theory, Publishing, Robyn Thomas, Slowing Down |
Posted by Matthew Higgins in School of Business Blog on July 29, 2014
While fraud is part and parcel of everyday life we seem conditioned to ignore the signs. Matthew Higgins, Senior Lecturer in Marketing and Consumption at the School, proposes a curricular solution. Meet Frank “Fizzy” Onyeachonam. Until recently he resided in a luxury flat in the Docklands area of London, he drove a Porsche and he […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Business Ethics, Business School, Case Studies, Classroom, Compliance, Drama, Fraud and Corruption, Management Education, Management Pedagogy, Nigel Iyer, Personal Responsibility, Responsibility |
Posted by Jennifer Smith Maguire in School of Business Blog on March 21, 2014
Jennifer Smith Maguire, Senior Lecturer in Cultural Production and Consumption at the School, outlines the motivation behind an experiment-in-abstinence undertaken by some of her freshman tutees. As a relative newcomer to the School, I’ve spent much of the past year thinking about what it means to teach ‘Critical Management Studies’ (CMS). Across the modules I […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged BA Management and Economics, BA Management Studies, Buy Nothing Day, Critical Management Studies, Facebook, Instagram, Jennifer Smith Maguire, Management Education, Management Pedagogy, Market Behaviour, Social Media, Social Media Free Day, Student Centred Learning, Tutorials, Twitter, Undergraduate |
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