Posted by Vanessa Beck in School of Business Blog on June 3, 2015
Lecturer in Employment Studies at the School, Vanessa Beck, considers the economic implications of the legal expectations placed on the contemporary unemployed The social security and support infrastructure provided to unemployed individuals in the UK has weakened substantially. To seek state aid today is, as one commentator recently put it, to travel within a ‘perfect […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Austerity, Charity, Choice, Competition, Competitiveness, Department for Work and Pensions, Deregulation, Disability, Disabled Workers, DWP, Economic Policy, Employment Relations, ESRC, Liberalism, Paternalism, Policy Making, Private Sector, Privatisation, Public Private Partnerships, Public Sector, Regulation, Social Security, Social Welfare, Third Sector, Unemployment, Voluntary Sector, Welfare, Work Placements, Work Programme |
Posted by Angus Cameron in School of Business Blog on May 12, 2015
Deputy Head of School, Angus Cameron, reflects upon one of the stranger tasks he has been asked to perform: being a central character in a murder mystery novel. Working as an academic often involves slipping between identities. The person at the front of the lecture theatre is not quite the same person that inhabits the […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Academia, Academic Freedom, Academic Journals, Aesthetics, Alternative Organisation, Art, Artistic Production, Corporate Governance, Fiction, Georges Bataille, Headless, Identity, off-shore finance, Organisation Studies, Performance Management, Performativity, Policy Making, Realism, Tax Avoidance, Tax Evasion |
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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