Department of Politics, People & Place

Business, Human Rights and Corporate Social Responsibility in a Global Financial Crisis: The Global Challenge of Embedding Human Rights in Organizations and Human Resource Management Practices

The relationship between business and human rights is important and complex. The social responsibility of business is evolving as Multinational Corporations become more pervasive and powerful; their global footprint can ...

Integrating Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility in the Context of a Global Financial Crisis: Enabling Sustainability through Executive Remuneration and Reward Strategy

Ejiogu, Chibuzo; Ozoh, Claire; Ejiogu, Chioma (Book chapter)

In spite of the potential synergies and mutual interdependence of corporate governance and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), they have developed and been practiced independently of each other. The Global Financial ...

Precariousness in Unlikely Places: The Role of High-Skilled Migrant Worker Networks in Resisting and Reproducing Precarity

Ejiogu, Chibuzo (Book chapter)

Research on changes to work and employment in the European Union (EU) have highlighted the increase in precarious forms of work (ILO 2012; McKay et al. 2012) especially among migrant workers (Anderson 2010; Potter and ...

Operational dilemmas in safety-critical industries: the tension between organizational reputational concerns and the effective communication of risk

Ejiogu, Chibuzo; Ejiogu, Amanze; Ambituuni, Ambisisi; Omar, Maktoba (Article)

Organizations involved in safety-critical operations often deal with operational tensions especially when involved in safety-critical incidents that is likely to violate safety. In this paper, we set out to understand ...

Determinants of Informal Entrepreneurship in Africa

Ejiogu, Chibuzo; Ejiogu, Amanze; Owusu, Andrews; Okechukwu, Obiora; Adeola, Ogechi (Article)

This study investigates the determinants of informal entrepreneurship in Africa. Using a crosssection of 21,954 firms from 47 African countries, the study estimates several multivariate models to examine the factors that ...

The dark side of transparency: Problematising the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative as a Public Sector Transparency, Accountability and Anti-Corruption Initiative

Ejiogu, Chibuzo; Ejiogu, Amanze; Ambituuni, Ambisisi (Article)

This study explores the dark side of transparency by problematizing the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) as a transparency, accountability and anti-corruption initiative in Nigeria. It does ...

Accounting for Accounting’s Role in the Neoliberalisation Processes of Social Housing in England: A Bourdieusian Perspective

Ejiogu, Chibuzo; Ejiogu, Amanze; Ambituuni, Ambisisi (Article)

Abstract This paper seeks to account for how accounting is implicated in the neoliberalization processes of social housing in England. It adopts a processual view which instead of conceptualizing neoliberalism as static ...

Translation in the ‘contact zone’ between accounting and human resource management: The nebulous idea of humans as assets and resources

Ejiogu, Chibuzo; Ejiogu, Amanze (Article)

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop an understanding of the process through which ideas are translated across disciplines. It does this by focussing on how the idea that people are corporate assets was translated ...

EU aggregate demand as a way out of crisis? Engaging the post-Keynesian critique

Bieler, Andreas; Jordan, Jamie; Morton, Adan David (Article)

Post-Keynesians have delivered an important advance in providing explanations of the Eurozone Crisis, not the least in demonstrating how the formation of the European integration project lacked the means to manage effectively ...

The Structure of Attitudes Towards Shale Gas Extraction in the United Kingdom

Anderson-Hudson, J.; Rose, Jonathan; Humphry, M.; Knight, W.; O'Hara, S. (Article)

Shale gas extraction is a highly controversial process. Despite significant proven or potential reserves, public reaction to extraction have often been negative. In some cases, this has prevented exploration. In this paper, ...

Principles of Festival Management

Newbold, Chris; Jordan, Jennie; Kelly, P.; Diaz, K. (Book)

Commodification and ‘the commons’: The politics of privatising public water in Greece and Portugal during the Eurozone Crisis

Bieler, A.; Jordan, J. (Article)

In response to the Eurozone crisis, austerity and restructuring has been imposed on the European Union’s peripheral member states in order to receive financial bailout loans. In addition to cuts in funding for essential ...

Towards a new era of regionalism in Italy? A comparative perspective on autonomy referendums

Giovannini, Arianna; Vampa, Davide (Article)

Referendums on regional autonomy are rare events in European politics but are likely to produce important political and institutional effects. This article provides the first systematic account of the autonomy referendums ...

Descrifrando el desorden: instituciones participativas y conflictos en torno a megaproyectos en México

Zaremberg, Gisela; Wong Torres, Marcela; Guarneros-Meza, Valeria (Article)

This article offers a map of «participatory institutions» (PI) that appear in conflict scenarios related to mining, hydrocarbons, wind and hydroelectric energy megaprojects in Mexico. The authors offer evidence of the ...

El “socialismo cotidiano” de los trabajadores textiles chilenos: Trazando una politica radical a traves de la prensa obrera, 1936-1973

Fishwick, Adam (Article)

A diferencia de las experiencias en otros países, en Chile, luego de 1968, un gobierno socialista llegó al poder con el triunfo electoral de Salvador Allende y la Unidad Popular, respaldado por movimientos obreros que ...