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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 · 4 January 2016 English
Over Christmas I have been reading Jonathan Coe’s latest novel, Number 11. Like John Lanchester’s Capital, which I ‘reviewed’ on this blog, it can be read as a ‘state of …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 18 December 2015 English
For what will probably be my final post of the year I return, as no doubt I will many times next year, when it is likely to be held, to …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 7 December 2015 English
A rather inward-looking post today. It’s now about three years since this blog started and at this time in previous years I have taken a look at how many people …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 20 November 2015 English
In the hope of lightening the mood compared with my previous post, and indeed with the increasing darkness of the current news agenda, today I offer something completely different. At …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 18 November 2015 English
I don’t think that I need to provide a link to reports of the horrific terrorist attacks in Paris; no one can fail to be aware of them, and appalled …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 13 November 2015 English
This week, the Indian Prime Minister visited the UK just a couple of weeks after the Chinese President did the same. Both were sumptuously hosted, but the main events were …
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 · 6 November 2015 English
In a previous post, I mentioned my article on The Conversation website, which tried to clarify what different Brexit options would mean. It has received over 16,000 hits – apparently …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 30 October 2015 English
The concept of legitimacy is central to organizations in many ways, most obviously in terms of who has the right to tell others what to do, and what kinds of …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 23 October 2015 English
The author and journalist Bill Bryson once wrote – I can’t track down the source - about how he was commissioned to write a newspaper article about amazing coincidences. Bereft …