The business school only teaches one form of organising – market managerialism.
Deregulation
George Monbiot: Is this the end of civilisation? We could take a different path
We are destroying the planet. There is no doubt about that, just about how long we can ignore this fact. Read here
Finance
Sigrún Davíðsdóttir’s Icelog: Paradise Papers and the onshore heart of the offshore industry
“The Paradise Papers emphasises, yet again, that the damaging effect of offshore is much more pervasive that robbing countries of tax. Offshore creates a two-tier business environment, hiding ownership and in general throwing an opaque […]
EU politics
Faiza Shaheen: Brexit can be harnessed for good. The left hasn’t realised this yet
There have been thousands of articles about “Why Brexit has to be stopped” and “Why Brexit cannot succeed”. Articles like this one are extremely rare. It helps understand why the Left is failing throughout Europe. […]
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.