The business school only teaches one form of organising – market managerialism.
EU politics
Simon Wren-Lewis: Uber and the anti-regulations bandwagon
The tide seems to be turning concerning the Gig Economy in Britain. Workers, supported by the unions, are winning one court case after the other to be recgonised for what they are: employees. Wren-Lewis looks […]
EU politics
An interview with Steven Forti: Two Catalonias
A lengthy but very informative interview with Steven Forti, Professor of Contemporary History at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Read here
Corruption
The Guardian: Cloud of corruption hangs over Bulgaria as it takes up EU presidency
Among journalists there is a trick to getting controversial articles past the powers that be: wait until between Christmas and New Year. This is a real corker in the Guardian, explaining why despite the horrendous […]
It was both sad and annoying to read such a poor and ill-informed article in a leading newspaper.The article is so far from the mark that it is laughable and thus annoying in that it feeds the right wing university-bashing that we are currently exposed to. It is sad that some one who draws their income from a Business School should be so aggrieved that he ‘bites the hand that feeds him’. I wonder what the University of Bristol and its Business School think of him. Perhaps a more constructive and informed article discussing the merits and demerits of business and management education, something that this country excels in, would be more welcome and useful. The first response to the article published in the Guardian opens by talking about such education ‘tainting universities root and branch’ and ‘corrupting both the university ethos and managers themselves’. Taken with the original article, this gives an interesting insight into the sort of person that supports Martin Parker’s thesis; both snobbish and anti-expertise, ill-informed and, possibly, xenophobic.