scholarly journals ‘Culture for Sale’: The Effects of Corporate Colonization on the UK Museum Sector

2021 ◽  
pp. 017084062198900
Author(s):  
Jeremy Aroles ◽  
John Hassard ◽  
Paula Hyde
Keyword(s):  
Public Institutions ◽  
External Support ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Financial Interests ◽  
Economic Austerity ◽  
The 2008 Financial Crisis ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Cultural Sector ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Corporate Colonization

For the United Kingdom, the 2008 financial crisis coupled with the subsequent economic austerity programme forced many public institutions to engage in various cost-cutting and fundraising ventures. In parallel, corporate ideologies came to dominate how academics, officials and professionals debated public activities, in turn profoundly affecting the provision of communal services. This paper explores how ‘corporate colonization’ ( sensu Deetz, 1992), fuelled by austerity, claims public institutions for commercial interests. Drawing on in-depth interviews with senior staff, this paper demonstrates how retrenchment of external support in the UK museum sector has been an uneven process, resulting in the manifestation of three experiential states of corporate colonization: organizational perennity, organizational perseverance and organizational precarity. We thus investigate the differential and uneven ways in which corporate colonization affects organizations pertaining to the UK cultural sector. Overall, we argue that the austerity culture in the UK affects museums in largely negative ways by forcing them to respond to the progressive need to satisfy short-term financial interests.

scholarly journals Organizational Support Experiences of Care Home and Home Care Staff in Sweden, Italy, Germany and the United Kingdom during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Healthcare ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 767
Author(s):  
Connie Lethin ◽  
Andrea Kenkmann ◽  
Carlos Chiatti ◽  
Jonas Christensen ◽  
Tamara Backhouse ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Organizational Support ◽  
Care Home ◽  
External Support ◽  
Care Staff ◽  
Care Organization ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Staff Experiences

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected care workers all over the globe, as older and more vulnerable people face a high risk of developing severe symptoms and dying from the virus infection. The aim of this study was to compare staff experiences of stress and anxiety as well as internal and external organizational support in Sweden, Italy, Germany, and the United Kingdom (UK) in order to determine how care staff were affected by the pandemic. A 29-item online questionnaire was used to collect data from care staff respondents: management (n = 136), nurses (n = 132), nursing assistants (n = 195), and other healthcare staff working in these organizations (n = 132). Stress and anxiety levels were highest in the UK and Germany, with Swedish staff showing the least stress. Internal and external support only partially explain the outcomes. Striking discrepancies between different staff groups’ assessment of organizational support as well as a lack of staff voice in the UK and Germany could be key factors in understanding staff’s stress levels during the pandemic. Structural, political, cultural, and economic factors play a significant role, not only factors within the care organization or in the immediate context.

Field Heteronomy and Contingent Expertise: The Case of International Tax Justice

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Vaughan
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
International Taxation ◽  
Field Analysis ◽  
2008 Financial Crisis ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Field Boundaries ◽  
International Tax ◽  
The 2008 Financial Crisis ◽  
Depth Interviews

Abstract The international tax system is targeted by a diverse range of networked civil society actors, from critical professionals mobilizing their expertise to anti-austerity protestors targeting the consequences of tax dodging. The years following the 2008 financial crisis saw an increase in the range of these actors and their cooperation with one another. This paper argues that a transnational field analysis complements existing expertise-oriented approaches, by identifying the overarching objective of the tax justice agenda as increasing heteronomy in the international taxation field relative to political fields. This objective requires the mobilization of diverse resources across different fields, resulting in network relationships crossing field boundaries to contest inter-field relations, rather than any single bounded field struggle. The findings are supported by an analysis of tax justice advocacy after the 2008 financial crisis in the United Kingdom and Australia, including thirty-seven in-depth interviews with different organizations involved in the network.

State and Nation in the United Kingdom

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Keating
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
National Identities ◽  
External Support ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Definitive Answer ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The People ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Key Questions

The United Kingdom is not a nation-state but a political union. It was formed by the coming together, over centuries, of territories which retained their own national identities and institutions. Key questions of demos (the people), telos (the purpose of union), ethos (binding values) and the locus of sovereignty were never definitively resolved. Since 1999, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have had their own self-governing institutions within the Union. Devolution was an effort to stabilize the Union in the face of centrifugal pressures, but it left the same key questions unresolved. The Union is now contested in all four of its component parts and fundamental questions are raised about the meaning of political, social and economic union. Unionism, as doctrine and practice appears to have lost its way, unable to adjust to devolution. Brexit has added to the strains because membership of the European Union provided an external support system for the union of the United Kingdom itself. Yet the UK cannot easily fall apart into its constituent nations, and public opinion still appears largely content with the idea of a plurinational union. There is no definitive answer to the question of state and nation within the United Kingdom.

Power, Policy, and Political Priorities: Elite Sport Development in Canada and the United Kingdom

2004 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 376-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mick Green
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Elite Sport ◽  
Sport Policy ◽  
The Past ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Policy Analysts ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Depth Interviews

This article analyzes government and quasigovernmental agencies’ use of “planning dictates” in relationships with national sporting organizations (NSOs) in Canada and national governing bodies (NGBs) of sport in the United Kingdom (UK). Attention is drawn to the asymmetries of power contouring elite sport policy developments in both countries that, though unobservable in an empirical sense, nonetheless warrant investigation. The analysis draws on semistructured, in-depth interviews with key personnel in three Canadian NSOs and three UK NGBs in swimming, athletics, and sailing; senior officials at Sport Canada and UK Sport; and sport-policy analysts and academics. Although Canadian NSOs have been subject to such planning dictates for the past 20 to 30 years, the requirement for UK NGBs to comply in this way have only emerged since the mid-1990s. Accordingly, the article concludes with suggestions for further research in the UK.

scholarly journals Perceived qualities of a 'good' chairman: A challenge for corporate governance in South Africa

2000 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-75
Author(s):  
Mike Bendixen ◽  
Adèle Thomas
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Board Members ◽  
Chief Executives ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Country Comparison ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Depth Interviews

Corporate governance is increasingly being viewed as essential to sound business practice. The recommendations of the Cadbury Committee in the United Kingdom will respect to the role of a chairman are similar to those later formulated in the King Report on Corporate Governance in South Africa. In the present study, the perceived qualities of 'good' chairmen are investigated among chairmen, chief executives and main board members in the UK and South Africa. In both the UK and in South Africa the same robust methodology was used, enabling an inter-country comparison of results. The UK study comprised 60 in-depth interviews followed by a mailing of 2418 questionnaires to which 274 main-board members responded. In both cases, in the analysis, four-factor and four-cluster solutions emerged. Not surprisingly, the results for the two countries are quite different from each other and different profiles of preferred chairmen were found. In the case of the UK, the most preferred profile supports the execution of roles recommended for good governance while in South Africa, the least preferred profile appears to be the most appropriate.

Online versus Print: A Comparative Analysis of Web-First Sports Coverage in Australia and the United Kingdom

2011 ◽  
Vol 140 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter English
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
The Sun ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Daily Telegraph ◽  
Sports Coverage ◽  
News Events ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Guardian ◽  
Depth Interviews

Sports departments are among the best suited sections of a news organisation for the publishing of web-first articles, due to the urgency of reporting regular matches and news events. The decision about which platform to use first has become a major issue for media outlets. This article reports the results of a comparative analysis of 2606 articles published on the sports websites and newspapers of three Australian ( The Australian, The Age and the Courier-Mail) and three UK titles (the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph and The Sun). The study found that the UK publications published more than double the number of web-first stories than the Australian ones. In-depth interviews with staff from each of the sports departments confirmed the view that Australian news organisations would prefer to protect exclusive content by holding it back for the newspaper, while two of the three UK companies pursued web-first aims.

scholarly journals Does the UK economy grow faster under a Conservative or Labour government?

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-101
Author(s):  
Amr Saber Algarhi ◽  
Alexander Tziamalis
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Gdp Growth ◽  
2008 Financial Crisis ◽  
Quarterly Data ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Real Gdp ◽  
Consistent Performance ◽  
The 2008 Financial Crisis ◽  
New Policies ◽  
The Uk

We use quarterly data from 1955 to 2019 to examine the performance of Conservative and Labour administrations in terms of real GDP growth in the United Kingdom. To account for fiscal lags in the legislation and implementation of new policies by each administration, we explore up to lag 8 in addition to an overlapping technique. Our main finding is that the UK economy has grown with a similar pace under both parties, however Labour governments seem to do better in tackling recessions and achieve a more consistent performance. Labour’s advantage becomes more pronounced if we discount the effect of a large external shock, the 2008 Financial Crisis.

scholarly journals Grandmothers migrating, working and caring: Latvian women between survival and self-realisation

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell King ◽  
Aija Lulle
Keyword(s):  
Older Women ◽  
Research Evidence ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Elderly Parents ◽  
Working Lives ◽  
Self Worth ◽  
Care Practices ◽  
The 2008 Financial Crisis ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Depth Interviews

AbstractThis paper describes the circumstances surrounding the migration of older Latvian women and their multi-dimensional lives as economic migrants and as distant carers and supporters of diverse family members who remain in Latvia. In post-Soviet Latvia, especially since the 2008 financial crisis and the austerity measures which took away hope for a decent old-age pension, older women migrate abroad in order to salvage their economic wellbeing and support their multi-generation families, which can run to four generations – their children and grandchildren plus, often, their elderly parents. Migration enables these women to maintain multidirectional flows of care and also to achieve economic and psychosocial independence. Therefore, care practices that reach four generations put the figure of the grandmother at the core of transnational care relations. Research evidence for this paper comprises 50 in-depth interviews with older Latvian migrant women aged from their mid-40s to their late 60s in the UK and elsewhere. The paper demonstrates the complexity and richness of these women’s working lives, built around enhanced economic wellbeing, multiple and transnational caring responsibilities, and a new sense of self-worth and empowerment.

Adoption of digital marketing tools in independent businesses: experiences of restaurant entrepreneurs in India and the United Kingdom

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Swati Dabas ◽  
Savita Sharma ◽  
Kamal Manaktola
Keyword(s):  
Digital Tools ◽  
Digital Marketing ◽  
Digital Medium ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Business Operations ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Restaurant Owners ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Shed Light

Purpose This paper aims to explore the experience of adoption of digital marketing and related tools by restaurant entrepreneurs or owners of restaurants in the UK and India. Design/methodology/approach This study is based on qualitative research. In-depth interviews were conducted with restaurant owners to understand the extent of adoption of digital marketing tools and how they have embraced the digital change in running their business operations. Findings Findings shed light on major changes in consumer behaviour and the readiness of restaurant owners to adopt digital tools for marketing restaurant businesses. Additionally, this paper also probes restaurant owners’ apprehensions in the process with an objective of retaining customers for a longer period. Originality/value It is also evident that there is a clear gap in the restaurant space in India and the UK as far as the adoption of digital marketing tools is concerned. The restaurants in India are yet to adequately harness the digital medium as a strategic tool for marketing. This research can potentially form the basis of further research in terms of using technology and digital tools to reach customers and creating a more personalized experience for them.

scholarly journals Ethnicity and COVID-19 outcomes among healthcare workers in the United Kingdom: UK-REACH ethico-legal research, qualitative research on healthcare workers' experiences, and stakeholder engagement protocol

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mayuri Gogoi ◽  
Ruby Reed-Berendt ◽  
Amani Al-Oraibi ◽  
Osama Hassan ◽  
Fatimah Wobi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Stakeholder Engagement ◽  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Work Package ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Depth Interviews

Introduction: As the world continues to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic, emerging evidence suggests that individuals from ethnic minority backgrounds may be disproportionately affected. The UK-REACH project has been initiated to understand ethnic differentials in COVID-19 outcomes among healthcare workers (HCWs) in the United Kingdom (UK) through five inter-linked work packages. The ethico-legal work package (Work Package 3) aims to understand and address legal, ethical and acceptability issues around big data research; the healthcare workers' experiences work package (Work Package 4) is a qualitative study exploring healthcare workers' experiences during COVID-19 and; the stakeholder engagement work package (Work Package 5) aims to provide feedback and support with the formulation and dissemination of the project recommendations. Methods and Analysis: Work Package 3 has two different research strands: (a) desk-based doctrinal research; and (b) empirical qualitative research with key opinion leaders. For the empirical research, in-depth interviews will be conducted digitally and recorded with participants' permission. Recordings will be transcribed, coded and analysed using thematic analysis. In Work Package 4, online in-depth interviews and focus groups will be conducted with approximately 150 HCWs, from across the UK, and these will be recorded with participants' consent. The recordings will be transcribed, coded and data will be analysed using thematic analysis. Work Package 5 will achieve its objectives through regular group meetings and in-group discussions. Ethics and Dissemination: Ethical approval has been received from the London - Brighton & Sussex Research Ethics Committee of the Health Research Authority (Ref No. 20/HRA/4718). Results of the study will be published in open access journals, and disseminated through conference presentations, project website, stakeholder organisations, media and scientific advisory groups.

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