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 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 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 |
Posted by Rutvica Andrijasevic in School of Business Blog on June 11, 2014
Dr. Rutvica Andrijasevic, Lecturer in Employment Studies at the School, describes her ongoing research into Foxconn’s under-documented European operations In a dormitory beside a railway station there are several hundred migrant workers getting ready for – or else just returning from – their 12-hour shifts in the nearby Foxconn factory. Most of them were recruited […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged China, Cost Cutting, Czech Republic, Efficiency, Europe, European Union, Factories, Flexibility, Forced Labour, Foxconn, Globalisation, Industrial Relations, Labour Costs, Management, Manufacturing, NGO, Shop Floor, State Support, Strike Action, Taiwan, Tariffs, Tax Avoidance, Tax Break, Trade Unionism, Turkey, University of Padua, VAT, Worker Suicide, Workforce Composition, Working Conditions |
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 |
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