Posted by in School of Business Blog on January 6, 2016
In a recently published paper, Stuart Macdonald, Visiting Professor at the School, critically assesses the performance of the Advanced Institute of Management Research (AIM) The AIM was established by the UK government in 2002 for the sake of advancing the scholarly standing of management research within and beyond the academy. This cause was, for the […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Advanced Institute of Management Research (AIM), British Journal of Management, Business School, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Elites, Elitism, Higher Education, Management, Management Research, Publishing, Rankings, Research |
Posted by Simon Lilley in School of Business Blog on January 22, 2015
Head of School, Professor Simon Lilley and Director of Research, Professor Martin Parker, discuss the problems of comparing apples, pears and potatoes, in the ranking of business and management research. We live in a world of rankings nowadays. There are league tables for schools, washing machines and doctor’s surgeries. In a complicated world, it’s not […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Accountability, Accounting, Auditing, Competition, Competitiveness, Higher Education, Management Education, Management Pedagogy, PR, Public Debate, Public Sector, Publishing, Rankings, Research, Research Ethics, Research Excellence Framework, Research Methodology, Spin |
Posted by Stephen Dunne in School of Business Blog on January 14, 2015
Lecturer in Social Theory and Consumption at the School, Stephen Dunne, attempts to renew a recent academic argument through a more accessible medium Social scientists engage in debates which matter to people other than themselves. Very often, however, those potentially publicly meaningful debates preside within academic journals which regularly assume a lot of terminological familiarity and disposable […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Academia, Academic Freedom, Academic Journals, Blogging, Centre for Philosophy and Political Economy (CPPE), Critique, Debate, Jargon, Leicester Sociology, Michel Foucault, Norbert Elias, Open Access, Open Access Publishing, Pay Wall, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Public Debate, Publishing, Rhetoric, Social Science, Sociology, The Civilising Process |
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 |
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