Can the academic field of strategy face the climate crisis and abandon its love of shareholder value? Another banger with Teddy DeWitt -- this one is sure to win us some friends. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

Genuinely funny.

#Milei cut university funding by 71%. De facto he closed down the #Argentina public higher education, with central universities expected to default on salaries in the next few months. Hard to imagine many will now afford private education. What a disaster
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Platform Work Directive is adopted. They thought it was impossible so we did it. We won. European Parliament voted today final agreement. Excellent news for millions of platform workers who will no longer be deprived of minimum wages, sick pay, holiday pay, and social security.

Yess! It took a while but now we finally have lift off! So excited to start this journal with the other editors and our amazing editorial board. 🥳🤜🏼💥🤛🏼

We look forward to receiving your submissions! 🙏🏻❤️

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Based on documents obtained by CEO, Euractiv reveals today there was extremely close coordination between gig companies and the Estonian government to water down social protections for platform workers.

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Dream team in da house at Tilburg University! Patrizia Zanoni explores forefront research on platform work and how to make it fairer. Thanks Tim Christiaens for getting this together!

I can just imagine how happy the author was when he thought of this

PIZZA METER REMAINS UNDEFEATED

ChatGPT overuses certain words, notably 'delve'

Why?

Turns out it was trained by RLHF workers from Africa

In Nigeria, “delve” is much more frequently used in business English than in England or the US. So we are ending up with an AI system that writes slightly like an African

Advice for scholars: next time you lecture on Kant and revolutions at “Downing” (Darwin College) Cambridge, make sure your hair is neatly tied and that you’re not blonde. Or else your research impact will be on the The Spectator libido section.

Borders are violent. Science is political.

#EGU24

Friends, I'm happy to announce that my paper with Dr. Émile P. Torres (Dr. Émile P. Torres), The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence, is finally out on this issue of First Monday.
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Anyone alarmed by articles in the 'anti-woke' symposium published in Academy of Management Academy of Management Perspectives, should check out this piece by Quinetta Roberson & colleagues

How Woke Was the Symposium on Woke Organizations? An Insider Perspective | AMP journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/am…

🚨BREAKING: The Stanford University Institute for Human-Centered AI publishes its Artificial Intelligence Index Report 2024, one of the most authoritative sources for data and insights on AI. Below are its top 10 takeaways:

1. AI beats humans on some tasks, but not on all;
2. Industry…

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Delivery Hero's CEO could be for the chop, but the German firm is just one of many struggling food delivery companies. Could co-op business models offer an alternative?

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New open-access paper out 🚨if you want to have a definitive answer whether #Foucault converted to #neoliberalism or not, this is the paper for you 😉 the short answer: no, but … 🧵

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'it's not about the money, we just want to make the world dance, forget about the price tag' 🎶

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Horrified by what happened through this AMP symposium. Glad it is now public. And really hope it drives some change so this never happens again.

I commented on this exclusive report on the Swiggy platform's perverse use of health insurance to gamify the labour of Indian workers in the gig economy. Shockingly cruel example of the despotism faced by platform workers.