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A Fairly Interesting and Completely Free Blog About Organizations

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Chris Grey is Emeritus Professor of Organization Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London, and was previously a Professor at Cambridge University and Warwick University. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS). He originally studied Economics and Politics at Manchester University, where he also gained a PhD on the regulation of financial services.


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Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 3 June 2022 English

One of the most widely discussed societal impacts of Covid, mentioned on p.121 of the latest edition of my book, has been the shift from working at work to ‘working …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 27 March 2022 English

In successive editions of my book since the second and including the latest, fifth, one, I have included the firm P&O in a long list of examples of what were …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 13 February 2022 English

Over eight years ago, in 2013, I wrote a post on this blog about the absurdity of a supposedly competitive market for electricity, and energy more generally. That absurdity was …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 16 April 2021 English

The growing scandal in the UK over corporate lobbing of government – which has implicated the former Prime Minister David Cameron as well as a former civil servant – is …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 28 June 2020 English

I’ve recently read two extraordinary and, I suppose, largely forgotten novels, both published in the early 1940s, and both three-generational sagas set mainly in the Pittsburgh steel industry from the …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 11 April 2020 English

This blog has been sadly neglected in recent years, as all my blogging time and energy have been taken up with my Brexit Blog. But the current coronavirus crisis prompts …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 2 May 2019 English

A House of Lords report this week has concluded that forensic science in England and Wales is “in crisis” and “has now reached breaking point”. This matters, hugely, because it …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 5 June 2018 English

The biggest organizational story in Britain at the moment – the abject chaos on the railways – is one which happens to affect me personally. I use one of the …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 30 April 2018 English

The still ongoing Windrush scandal has now claimed the scalp of Home Secretary Amber Rudd, primarily for misleading Parliament by saying that there were no deportation targets when, in fact, …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 25 March 2018 English

The still emerging scandal of the use of Facebook users’ data by Cambridge Analytica for political campaigning has numerous dimensions to it – political, technological, ethical and social. One particular …