In the Press
This page presents a selection of links to articles that have been already published (some of which may be seen in a slightly different form in the blogs). For simplicity those appearing elsewhere on the site are not listed here with podcasts being linked separately on the Podcasts page. A number also highlight items that we wrote long before setting up the blog. You can comment on the articles here or in the original blogs if they exist.
Social Responsibility
Ethical Vanities: The Promise and Pitfalls of Social Responsibility, AMBS Original Thinking Podcast, 19 February 2021.
Why Corporate Social Responsibility Does Not Help a Company, The Globe and Mail, 30 March 2016.
The Careless Consumer, The RSA Journal, Issue 1, 2015.
Why Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaigns Could Do more Harm Than Good, The Conversation, 25 March 2015.
The Bard’s Backers in Three Acts, Financial Times, 27 March 2014.
Grüne Hybris: Warum der ethisch korrekte Kunde ein Mythos ist, Wirtschaftswoche, 12 March 2012. German overview of the basic ideas in our book, The Myth of the Ethical Consumer (Cambridge 2010).
Ethical Shopping: The Price of Goodness, The New Zealand Herald, 7 January 2012.
Values versus Value, Strategy+Business, February 2011. Overview of our consumer studies for the Booz & Co publication.
Do MBAs Care Enough That it Influences Job Contract Choice? B21C, 20 November 2010. An overview of our work on employee choice and the influence of reputation.
The Other CSR: Consumer Social Responsibility, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Fall 2006. The article where we coined the phrase ‘Consumer Social Responsibility’. The link is to Boston College’s copy of the article.
Research & Teaching
Are Universities Suffering from Management Bloat, Financial Times, 18 May 2022.
Universities Must Be Forced to Compete With Alternative Models, Times Higher Education, 31 March 2022.
Pandemic Throws Spotlight on HE Employment Practices, The Times Higher Education, 28 May 2020.
Is This the Crisis Higher Education Needed to Have? The Times Higher Education, 14 May 2020.
Most Leaders of Top Universities in Post Less than Five Years and Male, 62, and a Scientist: Meet the Typical University Leader, The Times Higher Education, 5 September 2019.
Brexodus: The World’s Highly Skilled Have Options Other Than The UK, The Times Higher Education, 10 November 2016.
The TEF, Ravens and Mistaken Measures, The Times Higher Education, 8 September 2016.
The Summer When Working in a British University Lost its Global Appeal, The Conversation, 8 August 2016.
What is the Role of Scholarship in Business Schools? The Financial Times, 3 December 2013.
ERA: Perilous for Economics and Commerce, The Australian, 20 March 2012.
No Way to Put Australian Research on the Map, The Australian, 7 June 2011.
Research generates Better Business Scholarship, Financial Times, 31 January 2011.
What Students Really Want in an MBA Course, The Australian Financial Review, 23 May 2011.
Collegiate Rankings: A Scholarly Critique, Washington Post, 27 January 2010.
Economics, Policy & Business
The Day After: How to Respond to Disaster — And How Not To, Financial Times, 13 September 2021.
Cheese-maker Says Trade Deal Cost Him Hundreds of Thousands of Pounds, ITV News, 23 April 2021.
Whatever the Hardships of COVID-19, Let’s be Thankful it Wasn’t COVID-99, The Conversation, 21 April 2020.
Dilemmas Facing China Today, Andina, 11 December 2015 (in Spanish).
BHP Billiton Offers a Lesson in Crisis Management, The Independent, 18 November 2015.
China’s Biggest Barrier to Development? Trust, The Globe and Mail, 14 November 2014.
Want to Solve Global Tax Problems? Stop Taxing Corporations, The Conversation, 11 July 2013.
Chinese Ire Deepens Over Huawei NBN Ban, The Australian Financial Review, 29 March 2012.
RIO ‘Knew of Dodgy Dealing Allegations’ Months Before, Sydney Morning Herald, 31 March 2010.
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