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April 2011
14th Annual EBEN UK Conference - 13 April 2011
Keynote Lecture: The Common and Money
Professor Christian Marazzi, Professor and director of socio-economic research at the Scuola Universitaria della Svizzera Italiana and author of 'The Violence of Financial Capitalism'
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14th Annual EBEN UK Conference - 12 April 2011
Keynote Lecture: From Tehran to Madison: What is new in the Great unrest
Paul Mason, Economics Editor, BBC Newsnight
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March 2011
Inaugural Lecture: The Coming Human (Resource) Strike - 2 March 2011
Professor Peter Fleming, Professor of Work and Organisation, School of Business and Management, Queen Mary University of London
Work today is no longer regulated only by bureaucracy. New forms of control also persist through biocracy in which life itself (or bios) is an essential ‘human resource’ to be exploited. Perhaps an updated version of the 70’s human strike best describes labour’s response. In a workers society like ours, where work is everywhere, even in our dreams, the shared desire to be left alone might signal the coming of a truly democratic resolution.
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February 2011
Inaugural Lecture: Engines of Extravagance - The Railways since Privatisation - 9 February 2011
Professor Sean McCartney, Professor of Accounting and Business History, School of Business and Management, Queen Mary University of London
The privatisation of the railways in Britain was certainly a bold experiment. Flying in the face of all historical experience its progenitors were convinced that the introduction of competition would improve the industry’s efficiency and levels of service and eliminate its need of subsidy. The railways would cease to be a government responsibility. It has not worked out like this, yet despite its failings the basic structure of the privatised industry seems to be unquestioned, even if the reasons for it have been largely forgotten. Time for a rethink?
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November 2010
Inaugural Lecture: Professional Autonomy - Help, hindrance, or right? - 30 November 2010
Professor Maxine Robertson, Professor of Innovation and Organisation, School of Business and Management, Queen Mary University of London
Autonomy, especially professional autonomy naturally generates tensions in contexts of knowledge production. In sectors such as academia, biomedicine and expert services these tensions are manifest in the interplay between professional practices and organisational/institutional arrangements. The exercise of professional autonomy can therefore simultaneously drive innovation, create barriers to collaborative working, and challenge institutional governance arrangements. In this lecture Professor Maxine Robertson explores each of these tensions by adopting cultural, temporal and philosophical lenses. In doing so, the overriding aim is to re-think the complex nature of 21st century knowledge work and the implications for knowledge production.
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4th CRED Annual Lecture: The Discourse of the Islamic Veil in the Scandinavian Workplace - 24 November 2010
Professor Pushkala Prasad, Professor of Management and Liberal Arts, Skidmore College, USA
The Islamic Veil (headscarf, burkha, chador) has become a culturally charged symbol of otherness in the West. The Discourse of the Veil trickles into a range of social domains including bureaucracies and workplaces with important implications for the inclusion and assimilation of minority groups. This lecture traced this discourse in Scandinavia – connecting it to the Orientalism of the 19th Century and its expression on contemporary Danish and Swedish organizations. It focuses on the role of fantasy and the phenomenon of hyperveiling within this discourse and concludes with some reflections on the changing landscape of cultural identity in Scandinavia.
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Centre for Research in Globalisation Lecture Series: Financing R&D and Innovation - 11 November 2010
Professor Bronwyn Hall, University of California Berkeley
Professor Bronwyn Hall questioned to what extent new and /or innovative firms are fundamentally different from established firms, and if they require a different form of financing? The theoretical background for this proposition was presented, and the empirical evidence on its importance was reviewed. Professor Hall argues that owing to the intangible nature of their investment, asymmetric-information and moral hazard, these firms are more likely to be financed by equity than debt and behave in some cases as though they are cash-constrained, especially if they are small. Recognising the role for public policy in this area, many countries have implemented specific policies to bring the cost of financing innovation more in line with the level that would prevail in the absence of market failures.
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