Andreas Kornelakis

EU hits Google with €2.95bn antitrust fine Sanction comes despite Trump’s threat of retaliatory tariffs over digital regulations

EU hits Google with €2.95bn antitrust fine on.ft.com/4m6m2OK

Pay and Train to Sustain: A Dynamic Human Capital Resources View of the Relationship Between HRM Practices and Organizational Performance Over Time The relationship between human resource management (HRM) practices and organizational performance has received considerable attention in the literature. Most extant studies, however, have taken a sta...

Delighted about our new article 'Pay and Train to Sustain' with A Georgiadis @universityofleeds.bsky.social at the Human Resource Management journal @wiley.com It is available #OpenAccess #HRM #Pay #Skills @kingsbschool.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Nuffield Foundation announces £150 million funding commitment to tackle UK’s biggest social challenges - Nuffield Foundation The Nuffield Foundation launches a major new Strategic Review, backed by a £150 million spending commitment, to fund research and innovation.

Nuffield Foundation announces funding to tackle UK’s biggest social challenges www.nuffieldfoundation.org/news/nuffiel...

Apple and Google have 'effective duopoly' in UK says regulator The tech giants both expressed concern at the rulings, but said they will co-operate with investigations.

"Apple and Google have 'effective duopoly' in UK says regulator" from BBC. Unless the UK authority (CMA) takes strong action just like the EU against Google, the Big Tech giants will dominate the market with detrimental results for consumers. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

What Do Content Moderators Do? Emotion Work and Control on a Digital Health Platform Content moderation determines the type of data displayed on platforms. Although this type of work is conducted online without interpersonal interactions, it does not remain emotionless. This article ...

What Do Content Moderators Do? Emotion Work and Control on a Digital Health Platform - Petrakaki - Journal of Management Studies - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Uncovering the highly skilled emotional work of content moderators Health care platform moderators use strategies to manage distressing material while staying engaged enough to protect vulnerable users, finds a new study.

Uncovering the highly skilled emotional work of content moderators phys.org/news/2025-07...

Advanced AI suffers ‘complete accuracy collapse’ in face of complex problems, study finds ‘Pretty devastating’ Apple paper raises doubts about race to reach stage of AI at which it matches human intelligence

Bang goes the "AI will solve the problems of the world" thesis
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The brutal truth about today’s lay-offs Dismissing people by email or phone is still distressingly common and needs to stop

Dismissing people by email or phone is still distressingly common and needs to stop on.ft.com/4dWYrxq

Trump NLRB Pick Has History of Crushing Unions A new financial disclosure for Crystal Carey, Trump’s nominee to be general counsel of the NLRB, reveals a long list of anti-union clients including Amazon, Apple, and Trader Joe’s.

“Carey’s nomination as NLRB general counsel is certainly another example of Trump’s attacks on workers and the right to organize,” said @epi.org senior policy analyst Margaret Poydock.

Some of Crystal Carey's clients: Amazon, Trader Joe’s, and Apple.

Technological innovation, industry platforms or financialization? A comparative institutional perspective on Nokia, Apple, and Samsung The puzzle of how Nokia lost the smartphone wars has intrigued recent scholarship. Despite Nokia’s dominant position in the mobile phone industry and its technological capabilities and reputation f...

Delighted that our article on technological innovation & institutions www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... with @dimitrapetrakaki.bsky.social appears as the most read article in the last 12 months! Thank you @businesshistory.bsky.social #BuzHis

Always exciting to see new research coming out about @careopinion.org.uk and online patient feedback 😍

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Donald Trump has threatened to slap 25% tariffs on the European Union claiming the 27-country bloc was “formed to screw the United States”.
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It's a very sad day. Just notified that @iza.org is closing its doors as of 31 December 2025. At a time when labor is under attack and technological change moves at an ever-faster pace, I can't help but think that this is a short-sighted decision. My heart goes out to those folks who work there.

The illustration depicts a person wearing a graduation cap throwing the "X" logo into a trash bin. Nearby, a blue bird lies on the ground with X-shaped eyes, symbolizing its demise. The scene is set in a simple, grassy landscape under a cloudy sky, metaphorically representing the abandonment of X (formerly Twitter).

We have a massive academic base on Bluesky, we can lobby unis to quit X. The French are leading on this, others can do it too.
3 more French unis quit Twitter:

Université Paris-Saclay
@univparissaclay.bsky.social

Université PSL
@psl-univ.bsky.social

Sorbonne Université
@sorbonne-universite.fr

In 1987 already, Donald Trump bought full-page ads in major newspapers to call for America to stop paying to defend other countries.

Can people please stop calling Musk by his first name, like we're all on a first name basis with him?

Critics on socials do this and now the @financialtimes.com too?

Musk is not your buddy. He's a billionaire class warrior & wannabe Bond villain

‘It’s nightmarish’: why 1.5m Britons are still hunting for a job UK jobseekers say employers are hiring fewer staff, whom they expect to do more for less pay

www.theguardian.com/money/2025/f...

UC Berkeley professor emeritus killed in Oakland hit-and-run crash A UC Berkeley professor emeritus was killed in a deadly hit-and-run crash in Oakland on Monday.

Very sad. Great loss to labour and sociology www.ktvu.com/news/uc-berk...

Gift Exchange and Efficiency-Wage Theory: Four Views on JSTOR George A. Akerlof, Gift Exchange and Efficiency-Wage Theory: Four Views, The American Economic Review, Vol. 74, No. 2, Papers and Proceedings of the Ninety-Sixth Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association (May, 1984), pp. 79-83

Reminded of this paper by Akerlof that applied the work of Burawoy to challenge some established ways of thinking around incentives and market clearing in economics. Rare crossover of ideas but illustrates the erudition of Burawoy's work. RIP www.jstor.org/stable/18163...

The One in Which Rachel Talked About Growth | John Crace Chancellor’s speech lasting 48 minutes felt like cruelty – and some of the announcements felt old

There is a sense in which talk about growth has a performative element to it (as if talk will deliver in the end, perhaps by setting the right [sorry to repeat] "animal spirits"). But talk has clear and obvious economic limits www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

How does pay vary after job moves? Boris Groysberg
@harvardhbs.bsky.social & coauthors show narrow pay differences between men and women after job moves and show that women have higher pay raises because of the differences in the supply and demand for women executives.
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ETUI researchers and trainers on Bluesky! 👇

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Big Tech billionaires had a front row seat at Trump's inauguration. They were seated in front of Trump's own cabinet. Tells you everything you need to know.

Revealed: Thames Water diverted ‘cash for clean-ups’ to help pay bonuses Exclusive: UK’s biggest water company assessed risks before cutting back on cost of environmental work, investigation shows

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

YouTube video by UNI Europa How workers get better pay with multi-employer bargaining

Special @ilrreview.bsky.social on multi-employer bargaining with articles on UK, New Zealand, Australia, Denmark etc.

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Check also the @uni-europa.bsky.social video on single and multi-employer bargaining here

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rstj...

YouTube video by UNI Europa How workers get better pay with multi-employer bargaining

Collective bargaining is good
Sectoral bargaining is better

Explainer video by @uni-europa.bsky.social

youtu.be/rstjViHTEUk?...

Handbook for the Future of Work, edited by Julie MacLeavy and Harry Pitts, out in Dec. Dave Hesmondhalgh and I have a chapter, arguing that the large literature on labour platforms and platform workers needs to be rebalanced towards a focus on how non-labour platforms affect non-platform workers.

As this is really helping me getting a network, here are some people doing research on industrial relations and trade unions

Feel free to suggest more @etui.bsky.social @mhermans.bsky.social @melaniesimms.bsky.social @johnwbudd.bsky.social @kurtvandaele.bsky.social

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This is a really, really bad thing to say out loud.
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