Comment & analysis

LUMS researchers provide opinion and expert analysis of today's key issues.
31/03/15

How policymakers can help family firms

In an opinion piece in Family Capital, Alfredo De Massis says that to really boost the economy, politicians need to focus on family firms, not start-ups.
30/03/15

Professionalisation will get to the heart of the home care issue

Lancaster’s new HELPcare project hopes to find the right model of continuing professional development and training for care workers across the EU, writes Carolyn Downs in Community Care.
24/03/15

EU mortgage rules are tame - we need finance ‘gazumping’

In an opinion piece on the FT Adviser blog, LUMS economist Kim Kaivanto says that the new mortgage lending cooling-off period needs an element of active competition.
17/03/15

What you need to know about the deficit ahead of the Budget

As Chancellor George Osborne prepares to deliver his pre-election budget, Geraint Johnes says that the key issue remains the deficit.
17/03/15

Manifesto Check: Conservatives convince on cutting the deficit but the price may be growth

With the most rapid deficit reduction programme, the Conservatives will struggle to achieve economic growth, says William Tayler, of the School’s Economics Department.
13/03/15

More research will help us break marketing's enduring glass ceiling

Writing in Marketing Magazine, Caroline Gatrell says more research is needed to develop new and creative ways to encourage women to drive forward their marketing careers.
05/03/15

The vicious circle of low status homecare work must be broken

The majority of homecare workers are immigrants who do a great job, syas Dr Carolyn Downs in The Guardian, but care work needs to be a more attractive and credible career option.
02/03/15

DevoManc: can it make the NHS a success?

The United Kingdom's second city will finally take control of its own health, but it's a risky venture, says Professor Mike West.
26/02/15

What’s gone wrong at HSBC?

Kim Kaivanto, writing in The Conversation, asks why HSBC so often finds itself mired in controversy.
24/02/15

A bit more evidence on pay below the living wage

Geraint Johnes talks about the living wage and the groups of people who are not earning it.
24/02/15

Greece will stay in the euro – for now

Greece has been saved from expulsion for now but it would be unwise to speculate on how long its euro membership can continue, says John Whittaker in The Conversation.
24/02/15

Tackling youth unemployment

Geraint Johnes talks about youth unemployment and the labour market in a blog post for the Work Foundation.
24/02/15

How did the pollsters get it all so remarkably wrong?

Geraint Johnes examines the General Election campaigns and results.
13/02/15

Living in a collaborative world: implications for HR operating models

In an opinion piece for CIPD, Paul Sparrow discusses how HR needs to adapt to a world where collaboration and partnerships between organisations are the norm.
13/02/15

Creating a vision employees connect with

In an opinion piece in HR Magazine, Professor Cary Cooper says that connecting with employees is the soul of effective engagement. 
06/02/15

The dark side of digital work: how technology is making us less productive

Writing in the New Statesman, Monideepa Tarafdar says that the more time and effort we spend keeping on top of ever-changing applications and struggling to swim through gluts of information, the less productive we are at work.
06/02/15

Gas will replace oil in the UK – with or without fracking

Fracking might be unpopular with the public and many politicians but gas is still a good bet, says Mark Shackleton, writing in The Conversation.
05/02/15

Greater disclosure harms cartels

In a guest post on the Columbia Law School CLS Blue Skye blog, Professor Igor Goncharov describes how cartel authorities can foster product market competition by requiring transparent reporting of business performance.
03/02/15

Sci-fi becomes reality with the rise of ‘smart drugs’ at work

Writing in The Conversation, Karen Dale and Brian Bloomfield say that increased use of "smart drugs" risks creating a new norm in workplace culture.
30/01/15

We need HR for a horizontal world

Writing in HR Magazine, Paul Sparrow says that if HR wants to build and retain a reputation as a vital function then it must embrace horizontal management strategies and build cross-functional skills.
30/01/15

UK GAAP or IFRS: The £3.8 bn corporate tax losses research

Getting UK corporate tax more into line with an accrual-based accounting system – such as the IFRS – would lead to less volatility: an economy with less unexpected declines, and quicker expected recoveries, argue Lancaster's Igor Goncharov and Martin Jacob from WHU on the Global Accountant website.
21/01/15

Local support back on offer for business through Growth Hubs

Recent government figures show that for the first time in the UK there are now over 5m private sector businesses, an increase of 330,000 from 2013.

19/01/15

Mind your language

In an opinion piece in Global Banking & Finance Review, Professor Steve Young describes research into how new techniques from computer science and corpus linguistics can be used to analyse data from 'narrative information' in the financial markets.
15/12/14

Good decision making and corporate governance

In a guest blog on the Industry and Parliament Trust website, Professor Steve Young describes the discussions on corporate governance that he chaired at a policy session at the House of Commons on 10 December.