Posted by Martin Parker in School of Business Blog on February 3, 2016
Professor of Organisation and Culture at the School, Martin Parker, has just published a new book which provocatively blurs the lines between economic facts and literary fictions Why is a novel like an organization? It’s an improbable question, but in a new book, Valerie Hamilton and I show that the origins of the corporation and […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Bank of England, Commerce, Corporation, Credit, Daniel Defoe, Economics, Fiction, Imagination, Literature, Management, Organisation, Organisation Studies, Robinson Crusoe, Speculation |
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 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 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 |
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