The University of Bristol Business School is delighted to announce the publication of ‘The Threat: How Digital Capitalism is Sexist – And How to Resist’ by Dr Lilia Giugni, Lecturer in Social Innovation and Strategy.
The book explores the tight embrace between patriarchy and digital capitalism, and what we should do to resist. Here, Dr Lilia Giugni discusses her new book and the explanation she offers for the current state of things grounded in the tight intersections between technological developments, patriarchal culture, and capitalistic ways of productions. (more…)
Dr Vanessa Beck of the University of Bristol Business School has been awarded a grant of £975k from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to study underemployment and the lived experience of underemployed workers. The project is a collaboration with Prof Tracey Warren and Dr Luis Torres-Retamal from the University of Nottingham, Dr Daiga Kamērade, University of Salford, and Dr Vanesa Fuertes, University of the West of Scotland and will start in January 2023.
Managers issue press releases to communicate information about their firms to investors and other market participants. They often choose to complement disclosures of quantitative performance with qualitative information; in fact, the use of optimistic or pessimistic language throughout financial disclosures can be a tool for managers to either improve investors’ perceptions of firm fundamentals or misinform them. 
Many public firms highlight their Corporate Social Responsibilities (CSR) credentials in corporate communication with investors, analysts and the general public. Sceptics have argued that CSR firms often use Greenwashing strategies whereby their real actions and strategies are not entirely compatible with the “advertised” CSR credentials. 
On 8th and 9th September, the University of Bristol Business School hosted two in-person academic events in partnership with the British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA) and its South-Western Area Group (SWAG). The 9th was the SWAG Annual Conference, preceded by a Doctoral Colloquium on the 8th.
Whilst the world battled with the pandemic in 2021, the marketing and business sector had to continue to come up with creative solutions to retain and engage consumers. These solutions frequently encompassed digital technologies, also because many offline channels were often unavailable. Alongside, consumers have been relying on digital and smart technologies progressively more and in unexpected ways. 
Lecturer in Digital Marketing at the University of Bristol Business School, Dr Ana Javornik, 
“Accounting and finance, isn’t that all about about making the world a worse place?” – I’m paraphrasing, but this is basically the response from a friend, involved in climate activism, when I mentioned that sustainability is now a core topic in University of Bristol’s Business School.