Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
How Do Scholars Choose Their Fields? “A Family Business Focus” Profiles Pramodita Sharma
Pramodita Sharma, Editor of Family Business Review, was profiled on the University of Vermont’s University Communications website. Dr. Sharma, the Sanders Professor […]
Weekly Overview of Social Science News
Overcoming physics envy from the New York Times, How belief is the key to dealing with climate change skepticism from the Guardian, and much more in this big edition of Social Science News.
What are the prospects for global sociology?
For there to be some sort of global sociology there would need to a recognition of socio-culturally disparate forms of knowledge and institutional settings.
Fostering Sustainable Behavior
Fostering Sustainable Behavior Workshop An Introduction to Community-Based Social Marketing June 13-14, 2012 The cornerstone of sustainability is behavior change. Sustainability […]
New Additions to JOM Editor’s Choice
The Journal of Management (JOM) is committed to publishing scholarly empirical and theoretical research articles that have a high impact on the management field […]
Adding People to the Climate Change Equation
People’s behavior has been noticeably absent in science on sustainability, but a conference before June’s U.N. summit offers some hint human processes may join natural ones in developing solutions.
Research Integrity in the UK – the Spawn of Satan?
A document drops into my inbox that purports to be a draft Concordat between the major UK funders and university managements on research integrity – a publication that has already been set for July 2012, but someone belatedly thought that it might be a good idea to get disciplinary associations on board.
Stakeholder Democracy Over the Status Quo
Jeffrey Moriarty of Bentley University published “The Connection Between Stakeholder Theory and Stakeholder Democracy: An Excavation and Defense” on April 1, 2012 […]
