PM has praised Abu Dhabi group as ‘huge partner’ in reshaping Manchester, but critics say this ignores public cost of city’s transformation

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University staff voice concerns over reputational risk of partnering with company behind ChatGPT

Published in Public Management Review (Ahead of Print, 2026)

Selling direct to public helps squeezed farmers control prices and improves access to food in rural areas

Its all over and Spain are crowned the new World Champions! In our previous post we predicted that Brazil would triumph, but failed to spot ...

The government says the policy will "help with the cost of living and give people the breathing space they need"

“An absolute titan” of the British brewing world- Humphrey Smith of Sam Smith's Brewery- has passed away, aged 81.

The game of ‘association football’ or ‘soccer’ emerged as an English amateur pastime, to metamorphize into the ‘world’s game’. In this historiographical contribution we consider the formative histo...

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The 2026 FIFA World Cupo kicks-off TODAY, co-hosted by Canada, USA and Mexico. In this blog post we look back at our existing published rese...

On Saturday 6th June we had the great pleasure to host North East subculture hero Robert Nicholls (lead singer of Shrug, editor of England...

Foundations of Managing Sporting Events: Organising the 1966 FIFA World Cup (Routledge International Studies in Business History) : Tennent, Kevin, Gillett, Alex: Amazon.co.uk: Books

Hands-on approach was viewed as aggressive by several colleagues at UK oil major

The Price of Everything and the Cost of Nothing: Evaluating London’s Underground Transport Infrastructure Projects 1900–2000

Join Robert Nichols, editor and host of Middlesbrough FCs fanzine and internet chat forum, as he reflects on his work championing the people’s game and looks forward to this year’s FIFA World Cup.

48 countries, three host nations - former BBC head of values Ian Fletcher takes on the world’s biggest football tournament. So that's all good then. Starring Hugh Bonneville.

This School for Business and Society PGR Project scholarship will focus on the strategic development of a cluster of companies established by the London based Fairtrade pioneer Robin Murray, who spun ...

Industry executives say fans are being put off by expensive match tickets, inflation fears and anti-American sentiment

Exploring the rise of a 19th-century Barcelona chocolatier, Jou-Badal traces the business strategies that turned a food manufacturer into a bourgeois industrialist, exemplified by the iconic Casa Amatller. Through an analysis of competitive advantages over generations, it offers a case study methodological approach for business historians.