Critical Management Studies and the Skeleton in the Car Park
With all the media hype surrounding the forthcoming Critical Management Studies conference, Martin Parker reminds us of something which might otherwise have escaped our attention Some bones were found under a car park in Leicester recently. The City, County and University have all enthusiastically exploited this discovery for tourism and student recruitment purposes. The national […]
The Euro is (probably) dead, long live Europe!
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 […]
Managing Englishness
In the run up to Saint George’s Day, Richard Courtney, Lecturer in Employment Studies at the School, underlines why the nature of ‘Englishness’ should matter to scholars and practitioners of management I’m not usually one for name-dropping but in 2007 I met Billy Bragg at a seminar on Englishness in Contemporary Britain. This was a […]
Debating Crimea
Dr Olga Suhomlinova, Lecturer in Management at the School, responds to a question which she now finds herself expected to answer “So, what do you think about Crimea?” This is the most frequent question I have had to field during the past month, for I am Russian. What I could have written about this Wales-size […]
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