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Business School Prof biting the hand that feeds him. Publications here https://sites.google.com/view/profmartinp/home?authuser=0

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King Charles says he cares about the environment, so you’d expect him to stand behind cheap, clean power. I’ve signed the petition to demand the Crown Estate lower fees on seabeds and make wind farms more affordable to build. Join me?

16.12.2025 19:02 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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PODCAST: When HR hurts: Why workplace discipline needs a rethink - Transforming Society In this episode of our Transforming Business podcast series with Martin Parker, Andrew Cooper and Adrian Neal discuss the issues with HR investigations.

In this episode of our #TransformingBusiness #Podcast series with Martin Parker, Andrew Cooper and Adrian Neal discuss the issues with #HRInvestigations. https://www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2025/11/11/podcast-when-hr-hurts-why-workplace-discipline-needs-a-rethink/

11.11.2025 16:40 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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PODCAST: Growing up and older at work - Transforming Society In this Transforming Business podcast, Martin Parker speaks with Kathleen Riach about her groundbreaking 10-year longitudinal study that offers fresh theoretical and empirical insights into how ageing is experienced in the workplace.

In this Transforming Business podcast, Martin Parker speaks with Kathleen Riach about her 10-year longitudinal study that offers theoretical and empirical insights into how #Ageing is experienced in the workplace.
https://www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2025/12/11/podcast-growing-up-and-older-at-work/

11.12.2025 16:02 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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PODCAST: Growing up and older at work - Transforming Society In this Transforming Business podcast, Martin Parker speaks with Kathleen Riach about her groundbreaking 10-year longitudinal study that offers fresh theoretical and empirical insights into how ageing is experienced in the workplace.

Listen to Martin Parker and Kathleen Riach discuss the way #Ageing is both universal and unique, and the importance of providing, if not answers then, alternative paths when presenting research.
https://www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2025/12/11/podcast-growing-up-and-older-at-work/

14.12.2025 13:15 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

This Administration says there’s no money to feed hungry kids, but:
• Billions for a new war in Nigeria
• Billions for Argentina
• Billions for another war in Venezuela
• Millions to blow up boats
• Millions for a ballroom
Amazing how the budget’s always empty when it comes to feeding the poor.

08.11.2025 03:15 👍 162 🔁 77 💬 8 📌 2
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Clean energy across America Millions of Americans are building a cleaner, healthier energy future, one household at a time.

There is huge opportunity to reduce Americans electricity costs if more of them who can afford it would install solar & batteries.

For example, only 80,000 Pennsylvanians have installed solar on their homes, only 5 million nationwide mostly in CA.
#EnergySky
environmentamerica.org/pennsylvania...

08.11.2025 16:55 👍 54 🔁 20 💬 7 📌 0

Have you seen this @profmartinp.bsky.social ?

07.10.2025 16:34 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The Organization of Things: A Cabinet of Curiosities This is a book about knowledge and how it is organized. The business school has captured ideas about organization, and reduced them to questions of formal structures, documented processes, logistics ...

This is what Carl Rhodes said about my book.

“Books about organizations too often offer hackneyed statements of the obvious, riddled with ideologically saturated saccharine meanderings of marginal importance."

He then says my book doesn't do that, so buy it.

www.routledge.com/The-Organiza...

19.05.2025 11:50 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Space is a key feature of social life. But does the digitalisation of society affect its spatial dimensions, and if so, how? Listen to our latest podcast with Leverhulme Visiting Professor Theodore Schatzki and Dale Southerton

researchpod.org/university-o...

#sociodigitalfutures @leverhulme.ac.uk

01.05.2025 11:13 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
TODAY
Green Party
VOTE
MARY
PAGE
FOR WEST OF ENGLAND MAYOR
Promoted by Jenny Vernon on behalf of Mary Page (Green Party)
all at 17 Great George Street, Bristol BS1 5@T.

TODAY Green Party VOTE MARY PAGE FOR WEST OF ENGLAND MAYOR Promoted by Jenny Vernon on behalf of Mary Page (Green Party) all at 17 Great George Street, Bristol BS1 5@T.

TODAY WE CAN ELECT A GREEN MAYOR

Polling stations are now OPEN.
You can get out and vote Mary Page to be the first Green, West Of England Mayor.

Remember to bring ID.
💪Let’s do this!💪

01.05.2025 06:13 👍 177 🔁 57 💬 5 📌 5
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Imagining co-operatives? | UK Society for Co-operative Studies 2026 Special Issue: Co-operatives and co-operative economy in art and culture

Coop people! (And those who are alternative economy adjacent.) Last chance to submit an abstract for our special issue on coops in fiction, art and culture. Just an abstract to start off with, but do let us have a look at your ideas. See below.

www.ukscs.coop/pages/imagin...

30.04.2025 11:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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TOMORROW IS YOUR CHANCE

🟩 Vote Mary Page to be the first ever GREEN MAYOR for the West Of England. 🟩

It’s gonna be a tight one, but with YOUR HELP we can do this!

Credit: John Darvall, BBC

30.04.2025 07:07 👍 33 🔁 12 💬 3 📌 0
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🤣🦅🤣

29.04.2025 22:53 👍 36191 🔁 4978 💬 1024 📌 381

It is terribly good.

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11.04.2025 23:52 👍 48 🔁 12 💬 6 📌 3
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A movement of movements for Bristol? at PRSC Bristol is a city full of energy and vibrant alternative initiatives, but they don’t always connect well together. The idea of a ‘movement of movements’ suggests that organizing might to scale out and...

A movement of movements for Bristol event on 17th April 2025. Can we co-ordinate our activities so that the many local and particular forms of activism can become a rising tide of change which is impossible to ignore? Tickets below.

www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/prs...

10.04.2025 08:57 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

In this episode of our #TransformingBusinessPodcast series with Martin Parker, Carl Rhodes, author of 'Stinking Rich', explains the dangerous and deceptive myths which portray #Billionaires as a ‘force for good’.

@profcarlrhodes.bsky.social @profmartinp.bsky.social

🎧➡️ buff.ly/i2cqmt1

09.04.2025 17:16 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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PODCAST: The myth of the heroic billionaire - Transforming Society In this episode of our Transforming Business podcast series with Martin Parker, Carl Rhodes explains the dangerous and deceptive myths which portray billionaires as a ‘force for good’.

In this episode of our #TransformingBusinessPodcast series with Martin Parker, Carl Rhodes, author of 'Stinking Rich', explains the dangerous and deceptive myths which portray #Billionaires as a ‘force for good’.

@profcarlrhodes.bsky.social @profmartinp.bsky.social

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31.03.2025 17:15 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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PODCAST: Changemaking and radical hope in times of crisis - Transforming Society Everybody wants to change the world, but can we actually make a difference? In the first episode of our Transforming Business podcast series with Martin Parker, Jane Holgate and John Page, authors of…

In the first episode of our #TransformingBusinessPodcast series with Martin Parker, Jane Holgate and John Page, authors of 'Changemakers', discuss the power of #Activism and challenge the belief that change is impossible

@profmartinp.bsky.social

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07.04.2025 13:21 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

Why do business schools ignore coops? A paper that was rejected from AMLE, JMS and BJM, but taken up by the excellent Management Learning.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

01.04.2025 11:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

insightful and inspiring blog by @profmartinp.bsky.social - never give up

29.03.2025 07:09 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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PODCAST: The myth of the heroic billionaire - Transforming Society In this episode of our Transforming Business podcast series with Martin Parker, Carl Rhodes explains the dangerous and deceptive myths which portray billionaires as a ‘force for good’.

@profcarlrhodes.bsky.social explains the dangerous and deceptive myths which portray #Billionaires as a ‘force for good’ in this episode of our Transforming Business podcast series with @profmartinp.bsky.social: buff.ly/Ntre0kK

28.03.2025 16:09 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Why didn’t we build back better? - Transforming Society Martin Parker, editor of 'Life After COVID-19', hoped the pandemic might spark lasting change, but entrenched power and economic interests drove a return to business as usual, revealing that real…

@profmartinp.bsky.social hoped the #Pandemic might spark lasting change, but entrenched power and economic interests drove a return to business as usual, revealing that real progress demands active, sustained effort: buff.ly/YUnwDJg

28.03.2025 16:09 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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PODCAST: Changemaking and radical hope in times of crisis - Transforming Society Everybody wants to change the world, but can we actually make a difference? In the first episode of our Transforming Business podcast series with Martin Parker, Jane Holgate and John Page, authors of…

In the first episode of our Transforming Business podcast series with @profmartinp.bsky.social, Jane Holgate and John Page discuss the power of #Activism and challenge the belief that change is impossible: buff.ly/2OTUVxn

21.03.2025 16:33 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1

A fascinating conversation about social change and activism. Do have a listen.

22.03.2025 08:57 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Eggings, swastikas and dog poop: Tesla bears brunt of people’s ire against Musk In response to the billionaire’s scorched-earth raids on US government agencies, Tesla chargers and showrooms are being targeted

Please repost - I'm not sure how much coverage this is getting in the US media
#TeslaTakedown
#Swasticars

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

15.03.2025 14:48 👍 32 🔁 19 💬 2 📌 2
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We don’t need Elon Musk for an innovative tech industry Our ‘Tony Stark’ image of tech moguls is obscuring the talent and toil of ordinary workers, and inflating the egos of the bosses.

In 2018, I wrote a piece that annoyed Musk fanboys. I'd like to carry on annoying them.

theconversation.com/we-dont-need...

13.03.2025 21:19 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The job market is tough for new graduates — even if you dropped $200,000 on an elite MBA Top MBAs are struggling to land jobs; some are trying their hand at entrepreneurship instead....

@profmartinp.bsky.social Here's one for you and all other excellent critics of the crap taught in #BusinessSchools
sherwood.news/business/job...

21.02.2025 14:07 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0