Simon Lilley
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 123498 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Simon Lilley |
| PRENOMES | Simon |
| SOBRENOME | Lilley |
| ASSINATURA | LILLEY S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6754-8025 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1995 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
AI adoption in healthcare organizations
Despite the significant potential of artificial intelligence (AI), many public healthcare organizations struggle to adopt this technology. Simultaneously, empirical research on the factors that influence AI adoption in public healthcare settings remains scarce. We address this gap with a qualitative study with senior healthcare leaders who hold responsibility for the adoption and development of AI-enabled solutions within two leading National Hea…
Reorganizing public value for city life in the Anthropocene
Public value and city governance are fundamental notions in contemporary settings, but, currently conceived, they are not fit for the challenges presented by the proposed new epoch of geological time—the Anthropocene. Walking through the locked-down streets or calle of Venice, we face the sudden emptiness that starkly reveals the impact of human activity on the city and its waterways. Reflecting on the walk, our starting point is to problematize …
Hospital corridors as lived spaces
This article explores the meanings and uses of a hospital corridor through 98 diary entries produced by the staff of an English specialist hospital during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on Lefebvre's (1991, The production of space. Blackwell) threefold theorisation of space, corridors are seen as conceived, perceived and lived spaces, produced through and enabling the reconfiguration and reinterpretation of social interactions…
Conceptualizing business logistics as an ‘apparatus of security’ and its implications for management and organizational inquiry
Global commodity capitalism necessitates the fast and efficient movement of all manner of entities across the globe. Importantly, this commercial flow needs to be secured against the undocumented and unregulated flow of illegitimate people, finance and information, counterfeits, drugs, terror and other undesirables. The organizational practices of business logistics are central for achieving this objective. Yet they have received little attention…
Sensemaking in the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic
This article presents an analysis of personal diaries kept by health-care staff within a specialist NHS Trust in England during the initial 3 months of the COVID-19 pandemic. It adopts a moral sensemaking perspective to explore how NHS employees mobilised and reframed ideas of right and wrong in order to make sense of unprecedented uncertainty and displacement. By focussing on how the macro and micro politics of the pandemic were played out in th…
Bernard Stiegler and the necessity of education is the hammer broken and so what
There has been an excellent series of formative articles centring on Bernard Stiegler (1952-2020) as an inspiration to pedagogical thought; this is a summative article written from the perspective of after his death. Stiegler argued that education is ontologically crucial to human development, wherein technics or the ‘not-experienced-condition(s)-necessary-for-experience’ are crucial to humanity’s ability to create its own existence. Technics mak…
Are we living in a time of particularly rapid social change? And how might we know
In an editorial for this journal a decade ago, then-Editor-in-Chief Fred Phillips asserted that social change was proceeding at hyper-speed and, moreover, that it had consequently come to outpace technological change. This paper submits these claims to empirical assay. In so doing, we address the myriad problems attendant upon determining and interpreting the sort of data that might support us in our cause. Notwithstanding the innumerable caveats…
Using derivative logic to speculate on the future of the social investment market
This article pries open the black box of the social impact bond (SIB), the novel financial instrument at the heart of social investment. We discover that concrete information is currently limited and our method is thus more speculative. We address the obfuscation of the nomenclature of the instrument and explore the mechanics of SIBs to suggest that they are not simple bonds but rather also bear properties akin to those associated with derivative…
Organising destruction
In this article, we attempt to better understand war’s preponderance by exploring its relation to something we commonly see as ever present: the economy and the institutions of finance through which it is enacted. We delineate histories of warfare and finance, rendering our present as one of ‘war amongst the people’, in Rupert Smith’s words, in which finance is exemplified by the logic of the derivative. Through detailed examination of an infamou…
Finance past, finance future
As we work our way through the latest financial crisis, politicians seem both powerless to act convincingly and unable to craft from the welter of diverse and antagonistic narratives a coherent and convincing vision of the future. In this article, we argue that a temporal lens brings clarity to such confusion, and that thinking in terms of time and reflecting on privileged temporal structures helps to highlight underlying assumptions and distingu…
The Embodiment of Neoliberalism
How has neoliberalism achieved its sway? We address this question by tracing an alternative history of the economic theorization of 'entrepreneurship' that reveals the extent to which sociological transformation is attendant upon the construction, dissemination and change of the concepts of economy. Surveying the theoretical works of luminaries such as Kirzner, Mises and Simmel and reading them alongside ethnographies of the practices that instan…
Material Returns
The ascent of biofinancialisation since the 1980s brought with it a culture of valuation that spread well beyond financial markets and came to pervade everyday life, subjectivity, ecology and materiality. At the same time, and as a response to the social conflicts of the previous decades, value production shifts to incorporate the extended lifeworld of working people, their networks of sociality and the commons. The article examines the conflicts…
Publisher, be damned! From price gouging to the open road
All four authors are members of the Leicester school of critical management and have previously written together on academic publishing. David Harvie lectures in finance and is interested in ethical issues related to this and other matters. He is a member of The Free Association writing collective. Geoff Lightfoot lectures in entrepreneurship and has particular interests in the ideology of markets and critical accounting. Simon Lilley works on in…
Trading Belief
The question of what is it that traders actually do seems endlessly present in the emerging sociology of finance. For Hardie (2004, p. 251), joining, clarifying and critiquing Shleifer, the question is important but misplaced. Misplaced because it distracts attention onto particular types involved in financial markets to the detriment of a more general analysis of ‘what investors actually think and do’ (Shleifer, 2000, p. 183; our emphasis). For …
What are we to do with feral publishers
This article examines the profits and practices of commercial journal publishers and argues for an appropriate response from the academic community
Diptych
Full text not available on the LRA. Article embargoed until May 2012. This article is available from the publisher's website: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713649882~db=all ; DOI: 10.1080/14759551.2011.530741
Leadership Researchers on Leadership in Higher Education
This article reports the findings of a study in which leadership researchers were interviewed regarding their experiences and perceptions of leadership in higher education institutions. In particular, the research was concerned with the types of leadership associated with effectiveness, particularly at the Head of Department level. While several forms of leadership were identified as likely to be effective and ineffective, no single type of leade…
Organising time
In his exploration of ‘repetition for itself’, Deleuze (2004a), beginning with Hume, invites us to see imagination, prior to understanding, as site of contraction of instants and place of synthesis of time, through contemplation. But synthesis and contemplation here are not the deliberative work of the mind. Rather, they occur ‘in the mind... prior to all memory and all reflection’ (91, original emphasis). Working through Bergson and Butler, Dele…
Matters of fact/matters of fiction
How do we imagine change in a world of facts? If we accept, with Castoriadis, that we live within institutions of society which are essentially imaginary ‐ and we further accept that in order to pa
Visual consumption, collective memory and the representation of war
Conceiving of the visual as a significant force in the production and dissemination of collective memory, we argue that a new genre of World War Two films has recently emerged that form part of a new discursive “regime of memory” about the war and those that fought and lived through it, constituting a commemoration as much about reflecting on the present as it is about remembering the past. First, we argue that these films seek to reaffirm a (par…
Matters of Fact/Matters of Fiction
How do we imagine change in a world of facts? If we accept, with Castoriadis, that we live within institutions of society which are essentially imaginary ‐ and we further accept that in order to pa
The glass beads of global war
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to subject the short lived “Policy Analysis Market” (PAM) – “a Pentagon betting market on terror attacks” – and media and academic reactions to it, to some critical analysis. Design/methodology/approach The paper engages sustained invocation of the relationship between simulation and representation, for the story of the Policy Analysis Market (PAM) and its demise is replete with the tension between the two. It…
The ideology of markets and the practice of policy
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to briefly explore some recent curious interlocking of the ideology of markets and the practice of policy. Design/methodology/approach This particular discursive combine has most visibly been apparent in the concatenated birth and death of the US Defense Department's so‐called “Policy Analysis Market” (PAM). Yet PAM is but the most notorious example of a more sustained and pervasive attempt to use the technolo…
Running to Stand Still
That we live in a time of unprecedented and ever-increasing change is both a shibboleth of our age and the more-or-less explicit justification for all manner of “strategic” actions. The seldom, if ever, questioned assumption is that our now is more ephemeral, more evanescent, than any that preceded it. In this essay, we subject this assumption to some critical scrutiny, utilizing a range of empirical detail. In the face of this assay we find the …
Trading Narratives
This paper is not particularly about trade in goods, nor specifically about trade in the different forms of money that allow us to purchase those goods. Rather, it examines trade in those derivatives of goods and money that attract and enable the activities of three types of traders: hedgers, speculators and arbitrageurs. And it is in these traders themselves that the paper shows greatest interest. Hedgers apparently use derivatives markets to av…
Material Returns
The ascent of biofinancialisation since the 1980s brought with it a culture of valuation that spread well beyond financial markets and came to pervade everyday life, subjectivity, ecology and materiality. At the same time, and as a response to the social conflicts of the previous decades, value production shifts to incorporate the extended lifeworld of working people, their networks of sociality and the commons. The article examines the conflicts…
Using derivative logic to speculate on the future of the social investment market
This article pries open the black box of the social impact bond (SIB), the novel financial instrument at the heart of social investment. We discover that concrete information is currently limited and our method is thus more speculative. We address the obfuscation of the nomenclature of the instrument and explore the mechanics of SIBs to suggest that they are not simple bonds but rather also bear properties akin to those associated with derivative…
The Embodiment of Neoliberalism
How has neoliberalism achieved its sway? We address this question by tracing an alternative history of the economic theorization of 'entrepreneurship' that reveals the extent to which sociological transformation is attendant upon the construction, dissemination and change of the concepts of economy. Surveying the theoretical works of luminaries such as Kirzner, Mises and Simmel and reading them alongside ethnographies of the practices that instan…
Leadership Researchers on Leadership in Higher Education
This article reports the findings of a study in which leadership researchers were interviewed regarding their experiences and perceptions of leadership in higher education institutions. In particular, the research was concerned with the types of leadership associated with effectiveness, particularly at the Head of Department level. While several forms of leadership were identified as likely to be effective and ineffective, no single type of leade…
Visual consumption, collective memory and the representation of war
Conceiving of the visual as a significant force in the production and dissemination of collective memory, we argue that a new genre of World War Two films has recently emerged that form part of a new discursive “regime of memory” about the war and those that fought and lived through it, constituting a commemoration as much about reflecting on the present as it is about remembering the past. First, we argue that these films seek to reaffirm a (par…
Sensemaking in the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic
This article presents an analysis of personal diaries kept by health-care staff within a specialist NHS Trust in England during the initial 3 months of the COVID-19 pandemic. It adopts a moral sensemaking perspective to explore how NHS employees mobilised and reframed ideas of right and wrong in order to make sense of unprecedented uncertainty and displacement. By focussing on how the macro and micro politics of the pandemic were played out in th…
Running to Stand Still
That we live in a time of unprecedented and ever-increasing change is both a shibboleth of our age and the more-or-less explicit justification for all manner of “strategic” actions. The seldom, if ever, questioned assumption is that our now is more ephemeral, more evanescent, than any that preceded it. In this essay, we subject this assumption to some critical scrutiny, utilizing a range of empirical detail. In the face of this assay we find the …
Conceptualizing business logistics as an ‘apparatus of security’ and its implications for management and organizational inquiry
Global commodity capitalism necessitates the fast and efficient movement of all manner of entities across the globe. Importantly, this commercial flow needs to be secured against the undocumented and unregulated flow of illegitimate people, finance and information, counterfeits, drugs, terror and other undesirables. The organizational practices of business logistics are central for achieving this objective. Yet they have received little attention…
Bernard Stiegler and the necessity of education is the hammer broken and so what
There has been an excellent series of formative articles centring on Bernard Stiegler (1952-2020) as an inspiration to pedagogical thought; this is a summative article written from the perspective of after his death. Stiegler argued that education is ontologically crucial to human development, wherein technics or the ‘not-experienced-condition(s)-necessary-for-experience’ are crucial to humanity’s ability to create its own existence. Technics mak…
Finance past, finance future
As we work our way through the latest financial crisis, politicians seem both powerless to act convincingly and unable to craft from the welter of diverse and antagonistic narratives a coherent and convincing vision of the future. In this article, we argue that a temporal lens brings clarity to such confusion, and that thinking in terms of time and reflecting on privileged temporal structures helps to highlight underlying assumptions and distingu…
Organising time
In his exploration of ‘repetition for itself’, Deleuze (2004a), beginning with Hume, invites us to see imagination, prior to understanding, as site of contraction of instants and place of synthesis of time, through contemplation. But synthesis and contemplation here are not the deliberative work of the mind. Rather, they occur ‘in the mind... prior to all memory and all reflection’ (91, original emphasis). Working through Bergson and Butler, Dele…
Matters of fact/matters of fiction
How do we imagine change in a world of facts? If we accept, with Castoriadis, that we live within institutions of society which are essentially imaginary ‐ and we further accept that in order to pa
Moments, Monuments and Explication
The construction of the Millennium Dome near the origin of Greenwich, at a cost of something in the order of one billion pounds to the British taxpayer, 1 see, for example, Nick Mathiason 'Downturn hits Dome sale,' The Observer , Sunday October 21, 2001. provides an excellent, if somewhat expensive, opportunity to reconsider the interrelations of time and space. For the Dome seeks to monumentalise and celebrate a moment of time as it simultaneous…
Writing Utopia
Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through suffering and misery. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept tr…
Conspiracy, What Conspiracy
Disintegrating chronology
This paper utilises the rhetorical device of chronology, a device which helps to instantiate the ‘modern’ world, in order to demonstrate the “reversible imminence” of that world. It seeks to build upon other attempts at ‘postmodern’ writing which have relied on flouting modernist conventions to signify themselves as ‘innovative’. But rather than constructing another new ‘style’ that cuts across conventions in writing, the paper seeks to complemen…
Conspiracy, What Conspiracy
Moments, Monuments and Explication
The construction of the Millennium Dome near the origin of Greenwich, at a cost of something in the order of one billion pounds to the British taxpayer, 1 see, for example, Nick Mathiason 'Downturn hits Dome sale,' The Observer , Sunday October 21, 2001. provides an excellent, if somewhat expensive, opportunity to reconsider the interrelations of time and space. For the Dome seeks to monumentalise and celebrate a moment of time as it simultaneous…
Writing Utopia
Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through suffering and misery. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept tr…
Representing Organization
This textbook provides an accessible theoretical analysis of the organizational impact of information technologies. It seeks to examine and comment upon the myriad ways in which actors, organizations, and environments are represented through these technologies. Contemporary threats to organizational form and stability are considered alongside the potential that information technologies offer to both exacerbate and overcome them. It examines, amon…
Organising Speed
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Trading Narratives
This paper is not particularly about trade in goods, nor specifically about trade in the different forms of money that allow us to purchase those goods. Rather, it examines trade in those derivatives of goods and money that attract and enable the activities of three types of traders: hedgers, speculators and arbitrageurs. And it is in these traders themselves that the paper shows greatest interest. Hedgers apparently use derivatives markets to av…
A Parable of Parodies
The glass beads of global war
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to subject the short lived “Policy Analysis Market” (PAM) – “a Pentagon betting market on terror attacks” – and media and academic reactions to it, to some critical analysis. Design/methodology/approach The paper engages sustained invocation of the relationship between simulation and representation, for the story of the Policy Analysis Market (PAM) and its demise is replete with the tension between the two. It…
The ideology of markets and the practice of policy
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to briefly explore some recent curious interlocking of the ideology of markets and the practice of policy. Design/methodology/approach This particular discursive combine has most visibly been apparent in the concatenated birth and death of the US Defense Department's so‐called “Policy Analysis Market” (PAM). Yet PAM is but the most notorious example of a more sustained and pervasive attempt to use the technolo…
Running to Stand Still
That we live in a time of unprecedented and ever-increasing change is both a shibboleth of our age and the more-or-less explicit justification for all manner of “strategic” actions. The seldom, if ever, questioned assumption is that our now is more ephemeral, more evanescent, than any that preceded it. In this essay, we subject this assumption to some critical scrutiny, utilizing a range of empirical detail. In the face of this assay we find the …
Matters of Fact/Matters of Fiction
How do we imagine change in a world of facts? If we accept, with Castoriadis, that we live within institutions of society which are essentially imaginary ‐ and we further accept that in order to pa
Leadership Researchers on Leadership in Higher Education
This article reports the findings of a study in which leadership researchers were interviewed regarding their experiences and perceptions of leadership in higher education institutions. In particular, the research was concerned with the types of leadership associated with effectiveness, particularly at the Head of Department level. While several forms of leadership were identified as likely to be effective and ineffective, no single type of leade…
Organising time
In his exploration of ‘repetition for itself’, Deleuze (2004a), beginning with Hume, invites us to see imagination, prior to understanding, as site of contraction of instants and place of synthesis of time, through contemplation. But synthesis and contemplation here are not the deliberative work of the mind. Rather, they occur ‘in the mind... prior to all memory and all reflection’ (91, original emphasis). Working through Bergson and Butler, Dele…
Matters of fact/matters of fiction
How do we imagine change in a world of facts? If we accept, with Castoriadis, that we live within institutions of society which are essentially imaginary ‐ and we further accept that in order to pa
Visual consumption, collective memory and the representation of war
Conceiving of the visual as a significant force in the production and dissemination of collective memory, we argue that a new genre of World War Two films has recently emerged that form part of a new discursive “regime of memory” about the war and those that fought and lived through it, constituting a commemoration as much about reflecting on the present as it is about remembering the past. First, we argue that these films seek to reaffirm a (par…
Diptych
Full text not available on the LRA. Article embargoed until May 2012. This article is available from the publisher's website: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713649882~db=all ; DOI: 10.1080/14759551.2011.530741
Trading Belief
The question of what is it that traders actually do seems endlessly present in the emerging sociology of finance. For Hardie (2004, p. 251), joining, clarifying and critiquing Shleifer, the question is important but misplaced. Misplaced because it distracts attention onto particular types involved in financial markets to the detriment of a more general analysis of ‘what investors actually think and do’ (Shleifer, 2000, p. 183; our emphasis). For …
What are we to do with feral publishers
This article examines the profits and practices of commercial journal publishers and argues for an appropriate response from the academic community
Publisher, be damned! From price gouging to the open road
All four authors are members of the Leicester school of critical management and have previously written together on academic publishing. David Harvie lectures in finance and is interested in ethical issues related to this and other matters. He is a member of The Free Association writing collective. Geoff Lightfoot lectures in entrepreneurship and has particular interests in the ideology of markets and critical accounting. Simon Lilley works on in…
Finance past, finance future
As we work our way through the latest financial crisis, politicians seem both powerless to act convincingly and unable to craft from the welter of diverse and antagonistic narratives a coherent and convincing vision of the future. In this article, we argue that a temporal lens brings clarity to such confusion, and that thinking in terms of time and reflecting on privileged temporal structures helps to highlight underlying assumptions and distingu…
The Embodiment of Neoliberalism
How has neoliberalism achieved its sway? We address this question by tracing an alternative history of the economic theorization of 'entrepreneurship' that reveals the extent to which sociological transformation is attendant upon the construction, dissemination and change of the concepts of economy. Surveying the theoretical works of luminaries such as Kirzner, Mises and Simmel and reading them alongside ethnographies of the practices that instan…
Material Returns
The ascent of biofinancialisation since the 1980s brought with it a culture of valuation that spread well beyond financial markets and came to pervade everyday life, subjectivity, ecology and materiality. At the same time, and as a response to the social conflicts of the previous decades, value production shifts to incorporate the extended lifeworld of working people, their networks of sociality and the commons. The article examines the conflicts…
Organising destruction
In this article, we attempt to better understand war’s preponderance by exploring its relation to something we commonly see as ever present: the economy and the institutions of finance through which it is enacted. We delineate histories of warfare and finance, rendering our present as one of ‘war amongst the people’, in Rupert Smith’s words, in which finance is exemplified by the logic of the derivative. Through detailed examination of an infamou…
Using derivative logic to speculate on the future of the social investment market
This article pries open the black box of the social impact bond (SIB), the novel financial instrument at the heart of social investment. We discover that concrete information is currently limited and our method is thus more speculative. We address the obfuscation of the nomenclature of the instrument and explore the mechanics of SIBs to suggest that they are not simple bonds but rather also bear properties akin to those associated with derivative…
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