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Facebook and other large media focused service providers have for too long been overly cavalier with customers' data, in particular with their personally identifiable information (PII). The attention being focused on this event shows they are no longer too large to be unaccountable. Indeed, with the advent of the new…

Last week employers were reporting on gender wage differences. Unsurprisingly, the data show most employers pay more to men on average. The question is what is generating the difference? It is easy to interpret the difference as a measure of discrimination. This is certainly the tone of the current debate.

'It was a failure of my leadership' stated Australian captain Steve Smith  last week. Leadership issues feature daily in our news but last week opened up a host of leadership stories.

As the cricket scandal broke it appeared that the Australian Cricket Captain And Vice Captain were being suspended alongside…

All student essays seem to start with the sentence “In the changing times we live..” but I cringe when I read it because it sounds so naïve. Though I ignore it to stay a fair marker, if a clever student has decided on this start I can safely assume it’s…

That is the day that the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into force. It is a great idea for private individuals. At long last, they will start to have serious protection for their own private data. Any personally identifiable information (PII) of any EU resident, held by…

The toy shop Toys 'R' Us is going under. The news reported that they could not keep up, they were based out of town and they were not good online. All of that is true but they are missing the key point; children play on tablets today and not with…

International Federation of Accountants (IFAC), the World’s premier Accounting body has just published Professor M. Azizul Islam’s work on Accountants’ role to tackle Modern Slavery. 

Human rights issues are gaining greater prominence alongside economic concerns for contemporary organizations, due largely to increasing public pressure and stakeholder expectations. A range of…

Much has been written about the negotiations between the United Kingdom government and the remaining 27 members of the European Union (EU) over the terms of the UKs withdrawal from the EU, triggered by the referendum majority to leave the EU on 23 June 2016. That result was such a…

Russell Williams, Senior Lecturer in Management at the University of Aberdeen Business School, leads the undergraduate and postgraduate modules on Marketing Management where the topic of managing service encounters frequently comes up for discussion. In this blog entry Russell discusses our changing perceptions of people with tattoos and whether this…

Professor Catia Montagna, Jaffrey Chair of Political Economy at the University of Aberdeen Business School, was one of a small group of economists who took part in a Q&A session with Holyrood Magazine. Below are her responses to questions about the Scottish Economy, the challenges it faces, and the choices…