Posted by dharvie in School of Business Blog on February 11, 2015
Senior Lecturer in Finance and Political Economy, David Harvie, suggests the UK’s nascent social investment market is more a matter of imposing market discipline and less a matter of ‘doing well by doing good’. David Cameron’s ‘Big Society’ star lit up the post-crisis landscape when it was first introduced in November 2009. As students of […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Austerity, Big Society, Big Society Capital, Bonds, Capitalism, Competition, Competitiveness, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), David Cameron, Department for Work, Derivatives, Economics, Finance, Financial Crisis, Financialization, investment, NEETs, Neoliberalism, New Economics Foundation, Pensions and Employment, Politics, Real Subsumption, Social Finance, Social Impact Bonds, Social Investment, Social Movements, Social Reform, Social Return on Investment, Third Way |
Posted by Fabian Frenzel in School of Business Blog on November 26, 2014
This week the School launches its Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME) student working group. Fabian Frenzel, Lecturer in the Political Economy of Organisation, explains why Founded in 2007, PRME is a UN led initiative which aims to redress the demonstrable lack of care and responsibility taken by managers of increasingly powerful global corporations. It […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Anti-Corporate, Critical Management Studies, Critique, Environmentalism, Ethics, Fair Pay, Management Education, Management Pedagogy, Neoliberalism, Politics, Poverty, Principles of Responsible Management Education, PRME, Self-Regulation, Self-Reporting, Social Movements, Student Centred Learning, Sustainability, Sustainability Reporting, Tax Evasion, tourism, UN, UN Global Compact, United Nations, University |
Posted by Thomas Swann in School of Business Blog on November 20, 2013
Management and anarchism have something very superficial in common – most people loathe them. Nevertheless, on Tuesday the 29th of October, a workshop held at the School’s Centre for Philosophy and Political Economy explored what else can be said about this most peculiar of intersections. The event featured talks from Liam Barrington-Bush, author of Anarchists […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Anarchism, Centre for Philosophy and Political Economy (CPPE), Control, ephemera: theory and politics in organisation, Everyday Tasks, Fabian Frenzel, Hierarchy, Konstantin Stoborod, Liam Barrington-Bush, Management, Occupy, Protest Camps, Social Movements, Thomas Swann |
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