Simon Caulkin

there’s no argument even in shareholder capitalism’s own terms for not behaving ethically – and very many arguments for

It wasn’t the baby boomers but three decades of free market economics that put our youth on the streets

Like computer software, management is the invisible technology that keeps modern organisational economies working. From time to time, as now, it crashes – and a total upgrade is needed

In trying to make itself a quantitative science like economics, mainstream management has largely ignored the findings of more human-centred branches of scientific enquiry. Evolution, for instance.

The most chilling thing about the Enron story is that to get where it ended up didn’t require management to be deliberately evil; it just required it to take what most MBAs learn at business school and pursue it to its logical conclusion.

BEHIND THE fiasco of last year’s vanishing Revenue and Customs disk lies an everyday story of outsourcing folk.

“THIS IS a solution?” marvelled Stanley Bing incredulously on business website TheStreet.com at the prospect of a new wave of bank consolidations.

THE BANKERS have claimed another victim – this column. Cost-cutting as a result of the worst media recession in a lifetime means that Observer Management will disappear next week.

THE BANKRUPTCY of General Motors was a defining moment – in effect a symbolic final line under the management century that began with the invention of mass production and was brought to an end by the series of explosions that blew up the financial sector

As Larry Elliott noted in The Guardian recently, since the 1960s the liberal state has been stood on its head. Whereas 40 years ago markets were framed by strong checks and balances, while within the law individuals could, and did, tell officials to mind