1,171 search results
The Lovable Bra Occupation, Cumbernauld, 1982
Society, Politics & Law

The Lovable Bra Occupation, Cumbernauld, 1982

...Business Park'.] The former Lovable factory in Wardpark South. Now subdivided units called the 'Cumbernauld Business Park', January 2022. Picture by Thomas Smillie Photography. Lovable’s Cumbernauld operations quickly grew. As well as the factory in the Wardpark South Industrial Estate, two miles from Cumbernauld town centre, they opened warehouse facilities in the...
View article The Lovable Bra Occupation, Cumbernauld, 1982
Article 10 mins
Digital carbon footprints and remote working
Nature & Environment

Digital carbon footprints and remote working

...business community, and that is the central point of this article – the carbon emissions of remote workers. Scopes of responsibility As businesses implement sustainability, climate and NetZero strategies they become acutely aware of the responsibilities beholden upon them across three specific climate-focused scopes. These scopes of responsibility have been defined by...
View article Digital carbon footprints and remote working
Article 5 mins
Migrant businesswomen and the census
Society, Politics & Law

Migrant businesswomen and the census

...Census: migration, gender, and business, and shows how art-based approaches such as storytelling can be used to communicate quantitative Census data. Project team: Dr Carry van Lieshout (The Open University), Gunjan Sondhi (The Open University). Partners: ReWomen (Women of Management and Enterprise Network), CREME (Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship)...
View article Migrant businesswomen and the census
Article 5 mins
The Trojan Defence
Science, Maths & Technology

The Trojan Defence

...business models used to fund a 'hidden' economy. Fighting Back How the Trojan Defence works as a legal defence, and the challenges computer crime raises for both prosecution and for defence. You Decide Ian Kennedy walks through an investigation that he conducted on a computer containing indecent images of children, leaving the audience to decide the what the verdict...
View audio The Trojan Defence
Audio 26 mins
Changing the way we work
Money & Business

Changing the way we work

...our ability to invent and form relationships will be even more essential assets for business in the future. Organisational Forms How individuals are linked up as “virtual teams”, in ever-changing combinations to cater for the market at any given moment. Network organisations The distinction between competitor, customer, supplier and manager is now much less defined....
View audio Changing the way we work
Audio 30 mins
Money and Emotions
Money & Business

Money and Emotions

...Business School looks at the work of this research programme and explores the ways in which emotions affect how we all (from investment bankers to the wider public) think and decide about money. xDelia is funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme... Money and Emotions The xDelia project is a European Commission funded research programme being...
View audio Money and Emotions
Audio 19 mins
Organisations, environmental management and innovation
Nature & Environment

Organisations, environmental management and innovation

...business, to engage with the ideas and techniques in this course. In this course, you will be exploring the connections (sometimes obvious, sometimes not; sometimes positive, sometimes negative) between innovation and environmental management by organisations in order to gain some critical insight into the experiences and practices of innovators in real-world situations....
View course Organisations, environmental management and innovation
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Fair shares? Why sharing needs a democratic revolution
Society, Politics & Law

Fair shares? Why sharing needs a democratic revolution

...business model, aligned with Freegle’s grassroots values, has been the topic of extensive discussion. These discussions and democratic processes have been key to Freegle resisting considerable external pressure to become more business-like. So, we can hope that similar democratic processes could help for-profit sharing economy platforms become less business-like and...
View article Fair shares? Why sharing needs a democratic revolution
Article 5 mins