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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 · 2 February 2015 English
It seems clear that we live in an age of growing inequality, as a recent BBC analysis showed. And this inequality has a particular shape to it, because its prime …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 9 January 2015 English
I can’t claim that there is much of connection between this post and the themes of my book, with which this blog is supposed to be concerned, but at the …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 13 December 2014 English
I don’t often write about universities on this blog, because to do so seems too inward-looking. But current developments underway in UK universities should be of real public concern. I’m …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 5 December 2014 English
As I noted last year, this blog going live more or less coincides with my birthday, which is today. I am 50, the blog a more modest 2 years old …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 21 November 2014 English
Further to my recent post on the perils of Twitter, another British politician has come a cropper because of a tweet. This time the victim (or villain, depending on your …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 17 October 2014 English
One of the arguments in the book that has caught the most attention is my claim that the rhetoric of unprecedented change, and its use to justify organizational change, is …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 17 October 2014 English
I have written several times on this blog about immigration, because it is so intimately linked to organizational life in many countries. In the UK, almost all workplaces now contain …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 10 October 2014 English
New technologies always throw up new vocabularies. Recently, we have learned the term ‘twitter storm’ to denote a surge of typically acrimonious comment on the twitter social media site. We …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 26 September 2014 English
Probably the biggest international event at the moment is the rise of the so-called Islamic State (IS), which has taken over large chunks of Iraq and Syria and is enacting …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 14 September 2014 English
I have posted elsewhere on this blog (e.g. The New Barons and Impoverished by outsourcing) about the consequences of public sector outsourcing, picking up on some brief comments in the …