Posted by Gibson Burrell in School of Business Blog on May 6, 2015
Former Head of School, Professor Gibson Burrell, uncovers a series of uncomfortable parallels between managerialism and the militaRy At first sight, it appears as if the discipline of ‘business and management’ has no room for a debate on ‘the organization of destruction’ and the use of well-considered techniques of administration in acts of unspeakable violence […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Call for Papers, CIA, Consumption, Ethics, Management, Max Weber, Military, Military Force, Operations rersearch, Organisation, Organisation Studies, Rationality, Strategy, Taylorism, Violence, War, Zygmunt Bauman |
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 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 |
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