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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 · 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 · 27 December 2016 English
This blog, at least, is now living in new times since regular readers will have seen that there has been a complete revamp of the site design, to reflect the …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 12 December 2016 English
The de-skilling thesis associated with Harry Braverman’s classic work of labour process analysis, Labor and Monopoly Capital (1974) is a staple of organizational sociology (see p.36 of my book). I …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 11 March 2016 English
No, our topic today is not BDSM (and can I say in passing how peculiar it has been to, almost, share a name with Christian Grey, the protagonist of 50 …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 26 February 2016 English
I am not going to write yet again about the EU Referendum today, or at least not directly, but rather about some reflections prompted by an article that appeared in …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 8 November 2015 English
Organization studies has a peculiar relationship with history, including its own history. On the one hand, it routinely invokes woefully inadequate claims about history (new eras, unprecedented developments and so …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 26 July 2015 English
I learned a new and rather ugly word this week: uberfication. It came up in a discussion of new patterns of work and employment and checking on the internet I …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 21 July 2015 English
History repeats itself, but never in the same way. I’ve been thinking about this saying (for which I can’t find a definitive source) as the British Labour Party has been …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 4 July 2015 English
In this post, I want to pick up on an oblique point in my previous one. I mentioned there how a very potent political trope is to draw a distinction …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 16 June 2015 English
Some years, in fact almost two decades, ago I wrote an academic paper about what the novels of C.P Snow could tell us about management and organizations (Grey, 1996). Little-cited …