Posted by in School of Business Blog on August 4, 2015
Lecturer in Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations, Jo Grady, looks behind The Welfare Reform and Work Bill’s upbeat rhetoric to reveal the downplayed reality “Britain deserves a pay rise and Britain is getting a pay rise” By discontinuing a series of Tax Credits and by replacing the current National Minimum Wage (£6.50 […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Budget, Fair Pay, George Osborne, Industrial Relations, Living Wage, Minimum Wage, Pay Dispute, Politics, Progressive Tax, Real Wages, Shareholder Theory, Tax, Tax Break, Tax Credits, Trade Unionism, Welfare Reform and Work Bill |
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 Richard Courtney in School of Business Blog on December 3, 2014
On the day of 2014’s Autumn Statement, Richard Courtney, Lecturer in Employment Studies at the School, opposes the ideology of minimum taxation I used to get excited by budget statements. Listening to and subsequently dissecting how the government’s representatives say they are ‘balancing the books’ still reminds me of why I initially became a sociologist. […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Arts Council, August Statement, Austerity, Budget, Financial Crisis, George Osborne, Handbag Economics, Keynesianism, Mary Mellor, Money, Money Supply, Neoliberalism, Paul Krugman, Politics, Protectionism, Richard Courtney, Sociology, Tax, Taxation |
Posted by Martin Parker in School of Business Blog on September 10, 2014
Martin Parker, Regular Blog Contributor and Professor of Organisation and Culture at the School, explains why management academics like him have an important role to play in the mitigation of corporate excesses Corporations have a very bad reputation. Most ordinary people tend to assume they are gigantic profit making machines that trample on anyone standing […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Accounting, Amazon, Anti-Capitalism, Anti-Corporate, Apple, Austin Mitchell MP, British Law, Capitalism, Corporate Charter, Corporate Ethics, Corporate Governance, Corporate Reform Collective, Critical Management Studies, Environmentalism, Executive Pay, Labour Party, Legal Theory, Limited Liability, Marks & Spencer, Martin Parker, McDonalds, Reputation, Shareholder Theory, Stakeholder Theory, Stakeholders, Starbucks, Sustainability, Tax, Tax Avoid, Tax Avoidance, Tax Break, Vodafone |
Posted by Martin Parker in School of Business Blog on March 5, 2014
Martin Parker, Professor and Culture and Organisation at the School, underlines the apparent paradox of the popularity of anti-corporate sentiment within contemporary culture. The tie-in merchandising costs HOW much?! julochka President Business is a bad guy. We know that because he is the chief executive of the Octan Corporation. He also has bad hair, control issues, […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Anti-Capitalism, Anti-Corporate, CEO, Commodification, Consumption, Corporate Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Culture, Cynicism, LEGO, Management, Management Today, Marketing, Martin Parker, MBA, Merchandising, Niche Marketing, Tax, Tax Avoidance, Tax Evasion, The Conversation |
Posted by Chris Grocott in School of Business Blog on December 18, 2013
Dr. Chris Grocott, Lecturer in Management and Economic History at the School, demonstrates how the recent political disputes between the UK, Spain and the people of Gibraltar are connected to on-going economic tensions which both unite and divide them In late November, a Spanish ocean survey vessel entered Gibraltar territorial waters and navigated […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Chris Grocott, European Union, financial services, Gareth Stockey, Gibraltar, Gibraltar Economy, Gibraltar fontier, Gibraltar: A Modern History, history of gibraltar, insurance, investment, OECD, off-shore finance, off-shore gaming, shipping, Spain, Tax, tourism, Vienna Convention |
Posted by in School of Business Blog on December 5, 2013
Jo Grady, Lecturer in Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations at the School, responds to George Osbourne’s Autumn Statement, particularly on its proposal to increase the retirement age to 70. Speaking on LBC 97.3 today (December 5th, 2013), in defence of the coalition government’s decision to increase the retirement age to 70, Deputy Prime Minister […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Austerity, Autumn Statement, Benevolvence, Beveridge, Coalition Government, Economics, Financial Crisis, George Osbourne, House of Commons, Ideology, Industrial Relations, Inflation, Jo Grady, Labour, Lloyd George, Neoliberalism, Nick Clegg, Pensions, Politics, Poor Law, Real Wages, Retirement, Retirement Age, Social Reform, Sustainability, Tax, Trident, Vodafone |
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