By Dr Roshan Boojihawon, Senior Lecturer in Strategy Department of Strategy and International Business, University of Birmingham COVID-19 poses to overshadow all of these strides towards sustainability as such issues typically take a back seat in times of economic uncertainty. Global crises, like COVID-19, are complex because they come layered with a myriad of interlinked … Continue reading “Is COVID-19 a threat to sustainability?”
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Moving teaching online: the role of the educator
By Dr Roshan Boojihawon and Dr Daniel Chicksand Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham The COVID-19 pandemic has brought on a transformative process in online education globally. Universities around the world are mobilising the courses they offer online, enabled by modern technology to allow for seemingly normal continuation and completion of studies. There is also … Continue reading “Moving teaching online: the role of the educator”
State Aid and Fiscal Transfers in the Eurozone: A new Euro-vision?
By Professor Andy Mullineux Lloyds Banking Group Centre for Responsible Business, Department of Finance The European Union (EU) has relaxed restrictions on aid provided by member state governments to domestically incorporated businesses (‘State Aid’) during the COVID-19 crisis and its aftermath. This is in order to facilitate job protection schemes and protect companies from overseas … Continue reading “State Aid and Fiscal Transfers in the Eurozone: A new Euro-vision?”
Funding the NHS and government expenditure after the COVID-19 crisis
By Professor Andy Mullineux Lloyds Banking Group Centre for Responsible Business, Department of Finance The limitations on what the UK government can borrow from the Bank of England are determined primarily by inflation rising above tolerable rates and unacceptable depreciation of sterling, according to Modern Monetary Theory. The depreciation of sterling will be dependent … Continue reading “Funding the NHS and government expenditure after the COVID-19 crisis”
How to pay for the (COVID-19) war
By Professor Andy Mullineux Lloyds Banking Group Centre for Responsible Business, Department of Finance In 1940, Keynes famously published the book How to Pay for the War, which proposed re-assigning industrial production to support the war effort and deferring workers’ pay by issuing credits that would be redeemed after the war. The aim of these … Continue reading “How to pay for the (COVID-19) war”
Maintaining trust within a virtual work space
By Mark NK Saunders, Professor of Business Research Methods, Birmingham Business School, and Colin Hughes, Head of the Graduate Business School, Technological University Dublin and Postgraduate Researcher, Birmingham Business School With organisations responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and the government recently ‘ordering’ people to stay at home to avoid unnecessary social contact, the number of people … Continue reading “Maintaining trust within a virtual work space”
Top tips for improving the inclusivity of fathers in the workplace
By Dr Sarah Forbes and Dr Holly Birkett, co-directors of the Equal Parenting Project Over the past three years, we have been researching how parents navigate the pressures of combining working and parenting. As co-directors of the Equal Parenting Project, our research has identified a pattern of parents who are not entitled to maternity leave … Continue reading “Top tips for improving the inclusivity of fathers in the workplace”
Peaky Blinders: a gritty brand for Birmingham?
By Jemma Saunders, Department of Film and Creative Writing, and Professor Finola Kerrigan, Department of Marketing University of Birmingham “As the fifth series commences, it seems Birmingham can only continue to capitalise on the uniquely Peaky brand that mythologises an era of the city’s history.” In 2013, Tommy Shelby and the Peaky Blinders burst onto … Continue reading “Peaky Blinders: a gritty brand for Birmingham?”
Do you have what it takes to be an entrepreneur?
By Professor Kiran Trehan, Professor of Leadership and Enterprise Development, and Joel Blake, founder MD of cultiv8solutions.com Kiran Trehan on becoming a leader Do you have what it takes to become an entrepreneur? With TV reality shows such as The Apprentice and Dragons’ Den inspiring the next generation of entrepreneurial leaders, we need to ask … Continue reading “Do you have what it takes to be an entrepreneur?”
U.S.-China trade war: which country is more resilient?
By Dr Kurt Yang Liu, Lecturer in Operations Management Department of Management, Birmingham Business School As the trade war between the U.S. and China intensifies, one of the key questions to ask is how significant the damages would be to the world’s two largest economies if the trade tensions are prolonged. It is apparent that … Continue reading “U.S.-China trade war: which country is more resilient?”