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 Martin Parker in School of Business Blog on September 10, 2014
Martin Parker, Regular Blog Contributor and Professor of Organisation and Culture at the School, explains why management academics like him have an important role to play in the mitigation of corporate excesses Corporations have a very bad reputation. Most ordinary people tend to assume they are gigantic profit making machines that trample on anyone standing […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Accounting, Amazon, Anti-Capitalism, Anti-Corporate, Apple, Austin Mitchell MP, British Law, Capitalism, Corporate Charter, Corporate Ethics, Corporate Governance, Corporate Reform Collective, Critical Management Studies, Environmentalism, Executive Pay, Labour Party, Legal Theory, Limited Liability, Marks & Spencer, Martin Parker, McDonalds, Reputation, Shareholder Theory, Stakeholder Theory, Stakeholders, Starbucks, Sustainability, Tax, Tax Avoid, Tax Avoidance, Tax Break, Vodafone |
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 Ken Weir in School of Business Blog on June 18, 2014
Kenneth Weir, Lecturer in Accountancy at the School, examines the popularity of a controversial article which he, David Harvie, Geoff Lightfoot and Simon Lilley, recently published (about publishing) In 2012, the four of us published a piece examining the not very well concealed relationship between the profit margins enjoyed by large commercial publishers and the […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Academic Freedom, Altmetric, Blogging, Censorship, Critical Management Studies, Finch Report, Informa, Martin Parker, Open Access Publishing, Publishing, Social Science, Tax Avoidance, Taylor & Francis |
Posted by Martin Parker in School of Business Blog on March 5, 2014
Martin Parker, Professor and Culture and Organisation at the School, underlines the apparent paradox of the popularity of anti-corporate sentiment within contemporary culture. The tie-in merchandising costs HOW much?! julochka President Business is a bad guy. We know that because he is the chief executive of the Octan Corporation. He also has bad hair, control issues, […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Anti-Capitalism, Anti-Corporate, CEO, Commodification, Consumption, Corporate Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Culture, Cynicism, LEGO, Management, Management Today, Marketing, Martin Parker, MBA, Merchandising, Niche Marketing, Tax, Tax Avoidance, Tax Evasion, The Conversation |
Posted by Stephen Dunne in School of Business Blog on February 26, 2014
The School’s Centre for Philosophy and Political Economy (CPPE) celebrated its 10 year anniversary towards the end of last year by hosting a 3 day conference. One of the highlights of the events was a round table discussion on the Nature and Purpose of the Corporation, a video-recording of which is available to watch here. […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Agency Theory, Alternative Organisation, Business Ethics, Centre for Philosophy and Political Economy (CPPE), Corporate Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Critical Management Studies, Jeroen Veldman, Legal Theory, Martin Parker, Responsibility of Intellectuals, Sam Mansell, Shareholder Theory, Stakeholder Theory, Stephen Dunne |
Posted by in School of Business Blog on February 19, 2014
Neil Lancastle, one of the School’s current PhD students, brings his experience of curricular reform in economics to bear upon the promises (and problems) of being “critical” in a School of Management. Early in my PhD studies I was fortunate enough to read the sort of economic work which can now rightly claim to have […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Business Ethics, Code of Ethics, Critical Management Studies, Critique, CSEP, Economic Crisis, Economic Education, Economics, Economics Pedagogy, Ethics, Financial Crisis, German Pluralist Economics Network, Heterodox, Heterodox Economics, Higher Education, Management Education, Management Pedagogy, Managment Ethics, Martin Parker, Noam Chomsky, PEPS-Economie, Post-Crash Economics Society, REF, Responsibility of Intellectuals, Rethinking Economics, SOAS, Social Science, Stephen Dunne, Valerie Fournier |
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