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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 · 6 February 2017 English
A remarkable victory appears to have been won by anti-corruption demonstrators in Romania. The largest street protests – involving a reported half a million people, that in a country with …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 2 February 2017 English
In my book I write briefly (p.xiv) about the depressing nature of academic journal publication in organization studies, and have done so at more length in a post on this …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 23 January 2017 English
I posted recently about the growing possibilities for replacing human workers with robots, but alongside that it’s possible to discern a growing ‘robotization’ of human workers. That thought was prompted …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 13 January 2017 English
Today, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has produced a widely-reported research document showing the huge growth of part-time working amongst British men in recent years. Specifically, amongst men aged 25-55 …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 6 January 2017 English
In this post I want to draw the links between two current UK news stories. The first concerns the report today that forensic science services are operating in a risky …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 27 December 2016 English
This blog, at least, is now living in new times since regular readers will have seen that there has been a complete revamp of the site design, to reflect the …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 16 December 2016 English
In the new edition of my book I mention (p.25) cyber security as an example of how organizational rules are often flouted, leading to risky behaviour such as inadequate passwords …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 12 December 2016 English
The de-skilling thesis associated with Harry Braverman’s classic work of labour process analysis, Labor and Monopoly Capital (1974) is a staple of organizational sociology (see p.36 of my book). I …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 30 November 2016 English
Our topic today is not four wheel drive vehicles, but rather the fact that this blog is now four years old and also that today sees the publication of the …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 18 November 2016 English
It has become a truism of at least some parts of the research literature on leadership that to focus on successful leaders is to neglect the importance of the other …