Sion Owen
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I'm a Chartered Accountant and Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University teaching global finance, corporate financial strategy and managerial finance to MBA level. I recently completed a PhD at The University of Warwick, Warwick Business School, on 'political economy of the accounting firm' working with Professor Rob Bryer. I published Accounting For Business Studies (Elsevier) in 2003.

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New Directions for Business School Corporate Finance

(0) Comments | Posted 20 September 2012 | (15:33)

Scholarly appreciation of business and management needs to react quickly to changes in the commercial environment. The pace of change has been particularly rapid in financial markets and institutions, creating the need for a shakeup in business school corporate finance teaching. Business school students should investigate financial instability fully, rather...

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What is Political Economy of Global Finance?

(0) Comments | Posted 9 December 2011 | (15:23)

The financial crisis shows that politics and finance are connected and 'political economy' (PE) is back in focus, providing a framework for viewing finance from a political perspective. The problem is the term is hard to define as academics have used it in a variety of ways. The idea of...

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