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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 · 12 September 2014 English
The referendum on Scottish independence is, obviously, the biggest news story in Scotland at the moment, but also in the UK, and it is important for the whole of Europe …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 1 September 2014 English
Some years ago, a senior person at a university where I then worked told me how he had met the then boss of Tesco, a supermarket chain that was at …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 18 July 2014 English
It is difficult not to be affected by the disaster of the Malaysian airliner the crashed, apparently having been shot down, in Eastern Ukraine. That is true emotionally – when …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 14 July 2014 English
Britain is engulfed in another scandal of the ‘political establishment’, this time relating to allegations of a cover up of allegations of child abuse amongst politicians and possibly others, predominantly …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 3 July 2014 English
I have recently been doing a lot of reviewing for academic journals which is an increasingly depressing experience. Almost every paper I review has an entirely mechanistic and soul-destroying approach. …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 6 June 2014 English
The recent European Parliament elections yielded some striking results, with nationalistic and far Right parties doing especially well, notably in the UK, France and Denmark. In Greece, it was the …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 16 May 2014 English
There is a big political row about the US drug company Pfizer’s bid to buy its British rival AstraZeneca. It is interesting that it is a row because for at …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 22 April 2014 English
The ongoing crisis in Ukraine serves as a reminder of the ways – some naïve, some triumphalist – that the collapse of the Soviet Union was misunderstood in the West. …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 1 April 2014 English
I have been re-reading George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four which I refer to in the book (pp.71-2). This I think is a particularly incisive fictionalization of organization, more particularly totalitarian …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 23 March 2014 English
The subject of pensions does not excite great interest. It seems boring, technical and remote. But a pension is a key aspect of work, being a form of deferred wage. …