{"title":"Gibson Burrell","description":"Gibson Burrell is Honorary Professor of Organisation Theory at the Universities of Manchester, Lancaster and York. He was recipient of the 2014 American Academy of Management OMT Division's biennial Joanne Martin 'Trailblazer' award for lifelong contribution to the area and recipient of the Richard Whipp 'Lifetime Achievement Award' from the British Academy of Management in September 2021. Whilst at the University of Leicester, between 2003 and 2007 he was Head of the School of Management, and from 2003 until 2021 was Professor of Organisation Theory.","products":[{"product_id":"shaping-for-mediocrity-paperback","title":"Shaping for Mediocrity - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 2021, as part of a programme called Shaping for Excellence, bosses at the University of Leicester made redundant numerous scholars in what was simultaneously an attack on academic freedom and trade union organisation. The authors of Shaping for Mediocrity not only had front-row seats in the campaign against these mass redundancies, they were in the ring - both as targeted employees and as trade union officers and negotiators. Shaping for Mediocrity tells the inside story of these attacks and the campaign against them. It situates this story within a longer history of struggle to make the university a place where critical thinking is possible, showing how events in Leicester are both reflective of higher education in the UK following four decades of neoliberal 'reform' and a particularly egregious instance of the increasingly authoritarian management of public institutions such as universities.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51326888935647,"sku":"9781803417967","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/uCBpEszcOn9781803417967.webp?v=1788465811"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/gibson-burrell.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}