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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 · 2 September 2016 English

I’m just back from holiday and, like many people, holidays are a chance to catch up on reading – meaning reading novels, that is, as opposed to reading organization studies. …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 6 August 2016 English

Many thanks to those readers of this blog who have written to me commiserating with the dental problems I talked about in my last post. Treatment is still ongoing. But …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 27 July 2016 English

There is so much that is painful in the world right now – events in France, Germany and Turkey come particularly to mind – that there is no shortage of …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 9 July 2016 English

In a complete shift from recent posts, I am writing today to mark the death in March this year (but which I have only just heard about) of Earl Hamner …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 5 July 2016 English

Within less than a fortnight some of the consequences of Brexit are becoming clear. What was dismissed as ‘project fear’ turns out to have been true. The pound has collapsed, …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 25 June 2016 English

So post-truth politics won the day and in a grotesque act of national self-harm Britain has voted to leave the EU. Within hours reality began to bite back as the …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 23 June 2016 English

The expression ‘post-truth politics’ is one which I have only just become aware of, and I am not sure who coined it. The earliest usage I have found is an …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 11 June 2016 English

I’ve written previously about the collapse of retailer BHS. This week, some of the grisly details began to emerge, as a parliamentary select committee began its investigations. Particularly striking was …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 28 May 2016 English

Last February I wrote a post in which I peevishly listed various experiences of organizations not working very well. One item on the list concerned the problems of getting through …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 24 May 2016 English

Before the virtual ink had dried on my last post, the campaign for the UK to leave the EU produced their biggest and, so far, most pernicious, lie with the …