A Fairly Interesting and Completely Free Blog About Organizations

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 · 15 March 2014 English

Tony Benn, the veteran British socialist has died, aged 88. Like Margaret Thatcher, whose death last year I wrote about in another post, he was one of the figures who …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 11 March 2014 English

Today's post is prompted by the news that Euan Sutherland, the Chief Executive of the Co-op Group, has resigned after just 10 months in the post, saying that the Group …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 21 February 2014 English

Britain has recently experienced extensive flooding, especially in the South of the country and, as with many other things I have discussed on the blog – most recently cricket – …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 7 February 2014 English

Issues of privacy are a hot topic at the moment, mainly in terms of the way that governments and corporations may access and our data. The debate there is about …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 27 January 2014 English

[I apologise to readers in non-cricket playing countries, or those who have no interest in cricket: this post will be largely incomprehensible to you. And apologies to all for the …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 5 January 2014 English

No sooner had I posted some thoughts about the First World War than Michael Gove, the British Education Secretary, popped up with his own. In an article in the right-wing …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 28 December 2013 English

There is beginning to be a large amount of media attention given to the approaching centenary of the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. This led me over …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 6 December 2013 English

So this blog is just about exactly one year old, reflecting the fact that the third edition is also a year old. It is ‘fairly interesting’ to look at the …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 18 November 2013 English

The catastrophe of the Philippines typhoon has, like all disasters in the media age, been played out on our TV screens nightly*. That it is a natural catastrophe sharpens and …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 18 November 2013 English

I recently learned of the death of Norman Geras, whose obituary is here. Norman was a pivotal influence on me, intellectually and politically. In the book (pp. 11-12) I mention …