Dr Adam Leaver
Research interests
I have 3 main areas of research interest:
- The growing academic work on the 'cultural economy' and in
particular its relation to TV broadcasting and other areas of the entertainment business. - Revisiting and updating older academic work on the social
character of economic elites, by examining CEO pay in relation to the 'new' or 'entrepreneurial' rich. This in turn feeds back into my previous research on inequality, low-income households and the question of mobility.. - Understanding the interaction between financialisation, strategy and governance, in particular the role of narrative and its affects on buy, hold, sell decisions in different industries.
Other related activities
Current co-ordinator of the International Working Group on Financialization (IWGF).
Recent publications
- 2006 Froud, J., Johal, S., Leaver, A., Williams, K. (2006) Financialization and Strategy: Narrative and Numbers, London: Routledge.
- 2005 Froud, J., Johal, S., Leaver, A., Williams, K. (2005) 'Different worlds of motoring: choice, constraint and risk in household consumption', Sociological Review, 53(1) pp.96-128.
- 2005 Ertuk, I., Froud, J., Johal, S., Leaver, A., Williams, K. 'Finanz-Demokratisierung und finanzielle Allgemeinbildung', Kurswechsel, Vol. 3, pp.42-54.
- 2003 Leaver, A. & Lower, M. '57 channels and nothing on', Information and Communications Technology Law, October 2003, pp.147-162.
- 2001 Froud, J., Haslam, C., Johal, S., Leaver, A., Williams, J., Williams, K. 'Not enough money: the resources and choices of the motoring poor', Competition and Change, Vol. 6(1) pp.95-111.
- 2001 Leaver, A. 'Organic farming: ex post strategy or ex ante business analysis?', Competition and Change, Vol. 5(1), pp.39-71.
- 1999 Froud, J., Haslam, C., Johal, S., Leaver, A., Williams, J., Williams, K. 'The third way and the jammed economy', Capital and Class, no. 67, Spring 1999, pp.155-166.
Contact Details
Division of Accounting and Finance
Manchester Business School
The University of Manchester
Mezzanine Floor, Crawford House
Booth Street East
Manchester M13 9PL
UK
tel: +44 (0)161 275 4276
email: adam.leaver@manchester.ac.uk