Dr. Dean Pierides - Posts are relevant for teaching Business, Management and Organization Studies. All views expressed are my own. For my research see @deanp
Newcastle University
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About to embark on your first management and organisation research project and want to know why “data is created, not found; and that creating it well demands humanity, rather than objectivity” (Melanie Feinberg)? This short post @mitpress is worth reading thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/t…
And if you are wondering how to incorporate this line of argument into your business school research project, here is an article from @JBusinessEthics that you can read and use doi.org/10.1007/s10551-019-0… and another offering a way out of the myth doi.org/10.1007/s10551-019-0…
Students often assume that academics make money from publications however the reality is the exact opposite - academics make no money and are exploited. Read this article to learn why this is the case and one way editors can resist it theguardian.com/science/2023…
Teaching management and organisation in business schools has been less popular while the “habit of playing fast and loose with the truth” was valorised contra the ethic of bureaucracy but the tables are turning - see excellent article by @eringriffith nytimes.com/2023/04/15/busin…
Interested in the organisation of the music industry? “No one outside of the inner corporate circles really knows how the economics of the streaming world works. It pays, but what does it pay, and to whom?” - The End of the Music Business by @ethan_iverson thenation.com/article/societ…
“To users on the wow_mao server, the attention was only a brief distraction between memes and jokes” | To what extent is this the structure of technologically mediated learning experiences for students now? nytimes.com/2023/04/11/busin…
Build trust w/students. 1st seminar w/management students @NCLBusiness we addressed this directly. Students read the exceptionally good article by Will Davies @LRB & discussed w/us relative merits & shortcomings of neo-Taylorism & digital higher education: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n04/…
The essays that students turn in are about to get a lot better 😬
I just tried Moonbeam (app.gomoonbeam.com) and it produced an outline & credible undergraduate essay with just the prompt “Legitimation and startups.” And that is without human intervention, which would help
According to this @Microsoft study “[w]hile 87% of workers felt they worked as, or more efficiently, from home, 80% of managers disagreed”. Idea for a dissertation: What does efficient work look like for each of these groups and why are their responses so different?
This @FT by @sarahoconnor_ is helpful for working through literature on organisational tech adoption (uberization/platforms), business & society (points about servant economy) but also how the trend to embrace disruption, management by markets, etc. is impermanent and unnecessary
Farewell to the servant economy. Unprofitable “on-demand” services like someone bringing a coke to your door gave people a sense of affluence in a decade of stagnant wage growth. But they were subsidised by investors, and now the money is drying up. ft.com/content/8fcb5279-5494…
Dissertation students: If using the term “organizational performance”, the absolute minimum you can do is carefully read March & Sutton (1997): pubsonline.informs.org/doi/1… and if you’re claiming to measure it then Richard, Devinney, Yip & Johnson (2009): journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs…
We need to talk about management and organisation. This observation should not be a footnote or after-thought in discussions about the #GreatResignation : “Those in management positions were found to be more content with their current jobs than those in non-management roles”
"The economic outlook may be uncertain but highly skilled workers are in hot demand & employers can't be complacent,"—@PwC_UK’s @KevinJDEllis discusses our new survey. @BBCNews @Pete_Brown100 @bhushansethi1 bbc.co.uk/news/business-6155…
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Everyone: Please see funded PhD position (submit by: 22 Feb 2022) on new technologies in healthcare with one of my co-authors as lead supervisor, the excellent @SocSimon at the University of Kent. Hot topic so please circulate widely so that interested students don’t miss out
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How Facebook’s Zuckerberg shirks responsibility according to Haugen: “seemingly objective metrics, the fixation with free speech and censorship debates and a general ‘fetishization of flatness’ most clearly seen in the company’s large open-floor offices” nytimes.com/2021/12/20/opini…
The #ethics of #entrepreneurship? Invent employees, then use thousands of fake or stolen national insurance numbers to gain access to state funds (£26.5m furlough funds). District Judge Shomon Khan described this as being of “grave concern to the public”
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Nearly 2/3 of those thinking of leaving say they are ready to go with no new job in hand… top 3 factors people mentioned were “feeling undervalued by their organisations, or by managers, or not feeling as if they belonged” on.ft.com/3mnoX8C
Students of organization theory will draw on management classics to understand: “the trade-offs and conflicts that arise when companies attempt dramatic cultural shifts and put the onus on hard-nosed managers to make that change happen” via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2021/08/16/techn…
“The place for an accurate definition of a subject is at the end of an inquiry rather than at the beginning” (Dewey & Tufts, 1908)
Editorial statement from @guardian: ‘Universities, increasingly run as competing businesses by overpaid vice-chancellors and a coterie of financial managers, have lost touch with the collegiate ethos that used to inform campus life’. Organisation matters: stir.ac.uk/people/424049#tea…
The Guardian view on funding universities: the market model isn’t working | Editorial d.gu.com/S0kGyW
Moreover: ‘Crude systems of measurement and monitoring have eroded trust and generated false incentives’ argue the editors of @guardian. ‘‘Not just any busload or haphazard crowd of people deserves the name of society’ (Mary Douglas, 1986, p. 9). See: taylorfrancis.com/chapters/e…
Mandatory reading for former/current/future students who will recognise @ToddBridgman & @SDJCummings from reading lists. Anyone interested in incorporating @CambridgeUP’s “A new history of management” into the curriculum, ask or see review (w/@Gemma_Lord): doi.org/10.5465/amle.2018.02…
Have just been pointed in direction of this by @LilaMacLellan @qz. It is an absolutely superb article, challenging some of the management fundamentals. Feat. @ToddBridgman. Thanks to @leoncprieto. qz.com/work/1746324/we-got-o…
