The Management of Labour: A History of Australian Employers
In: Labour history: a journal of labour and social history, Heft 70, S. 239
ISSN: 1839-3039
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In: Labour history: a journal of labour and social history, Heft 70, S. 239
ISSN: 1839-3039
In: Labour history: a journal of labour and social history, Heft 71, S. 142
ISSN: 1839-3039
In: Asia Pacific business review, Band 12, Heft 3, S. 355-373
ISSN: 1743-792X
In: Labour history: a journal of labour and social history, Heft 87, S. 284
ISSN: 1839-3039
In: The journal of conflict resolution: journal of the Peace Science Society (International), Band 14, Heft 4, S. 543-554
ISSN: 1552-8766
In: Midwest journal of political science: publication of the Midwest Political Science Association, Band 11, Heft 3, S. 413
Climate change is the most important issue now facing humanity. As global temperatures increase, floods, fires and storms are becoming both more intense and frequent. People are suffering. And yet, emissions continue to rise. This book unpacks the activities of the key actors which have organised past and present climate responses - specifically, corporations, governments, and civil society organisations. Analysing three elements of climate change - mitigation, adaptation and suffering - the authors show how exponential growth of the capitalist system has allowed the fossil fuel industry to maintain its dominance. However, this hegemonic position is now coming under threat as new and innovative social movements have emerged, including the fossil fuel divestment movement, Fridays for Future, Extinction Rebellion and others. In exposing the inadequacies of current climate policies and pointing to the possibilities of new social and economic systems, this book highlights how the worst impacts of climate change can be avoided.
In: Environmental politics, Band 32, Heft 1, S. 1-20
ISSN: 1743-8934
In: Environmental politics, S. 1-19
ISSN: 1743-8934
This paper investigates the political contestation over hydraulic fracturing of shale gas, or 'fracking', in the UK. Based on an analysis of four public inquiries, it shows how both proponents and opponents of fracking employed scaling to mobilize interests by connecting (or disconnecting) fracking to spatial and temporal scales. The analysis explains how a fossil fuel hegemony was reproduced by linking local and specific benefits to nationally or globally recognized interests such as employment, energy security and emission reductions. The paper contributes to recent debates on environmental political contestation by showing how scaling enables the linkage of competing interests by alternating between spatial (e.g. local vs. global) and temporal (e.g. short term vs. long term) horizons. The authors argue that scaling allows dominant actors to uphold contradictory positions on climate change, which contributes to explaining the current disastrous political climate impasse.
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In: British Journal of Management, Band 29, Heft 2, S. 235-251
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In: Organization: the interdisciplinary journal of organization, theory and society, Band 25, Heft 1, S. 139-147
ISSN: 1461-7323
In: Parliamentary history, Band 36, Heft 3
ISSN: 1750-0206
In: Justification, Evaluation and Critique in the Study of Organizations; Research in the Sociology of Organizations, S. 143-171
In: Organization: the interdisciplinary journal of organization, theory and society, Band 23, Heft 2, S. 184-205
ISSN: 1461-7323
The nature and extent of changes in management remain subject to debate, especially around the notion of post-bureaucracy. Most research concedes that there has been some change, but towards hybrid or neo-bureaucratic practices. However, the mechanisms through which these changes have occurred, and their precise forms and outcomes have received less attention. This article addresses these issues by focusing on an emerging group of managers that closely resembles images of new management (e.g. project-based, change focused, externally oriented and advisory in style). Drawing on interview-based research in the United Kingdom and Australia, it examines consulting practices and orientations adopted within management roles. It first constructs an ideal type of neo-bureaucracy and then explores different elements of management as consultancy empirically. It shows how they are inspired by anti-bureaucratic rationales but assume a hybrid neo-bureaucratic form. We also show that, far from resolving tensions between rational and post-bureaucratic forms, management as consultancy both reproduces and changes the tensions of management and organisation. Thus, rather than denying or heralding changes in management towards a 'new spirit of capitalism', we focus on a context in which such changes are occurring and demonstrate their wider implications for both management and consultancy.