Archives for August, 2014

How Can Strategy Be Integrated with Entrepreneurship?
Business and Management INK
August 21, 2014

How Can Strategy Be Integrated with Entrepreneurship?

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Engaging With the Untidy World of Nonprofits
Recognition
August 20, 2014

Engaging With the Untidy World of Nonprofits

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What Do Academia’s Ubiquitous Rankings Accomplish?
Career
August 20, 2014

What Do Academia’s Ubiquitous Rankings Accomplish?

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How Do Regulations Affect Athletes’ Doping Decisions?
Business and Management INK
August 20, 2014

How Do Regulations Affect Athletes’ Doping Decisions?

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An Open Invitation to OpenCon

An Open Invitation to OpenCon

Nick Shockey highlights OpenCon, a conference to take place in November aimed at mobilizing support around open access, open educational resources and open data among early career researchers. Funding has been made available to cover travel to attend the conference in Washington, D.C. but the deadline is Monday.

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L’affaire Salaita: Can Activism Go a Tweet Too Far?

L’affaire Salaita: Can Activism Go a Tweet Too Far?

Social media allows scholars to discuss and debate current affairs like never before, but on a very public stage. Brent E. Sasley and Mira Sucharov examine and assess one academic’s tweets on the Israel-Gaza crisis and the questions raised over his style and approach.

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Who Takes Humanities Courses? A Lot of Social Scientists

Who Takes Humanities Courses? A Lot of Social Scientists

Parsing federal education statistics, it turns out that prospective social scientists are the most avid consumers of humanities courses as undergrads (not counting humanities majors themselves, that is).

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Taking the Air out of the Ban on Transgender Troops

Taking the Air out of the Ban on Transgender Troops

UPDATE: In a 2014 article, a former U.S. surgeon general and four co-authors argue that the U.S. military’s medically based ban on transgender troops in place then failed on the facts and on the precedents of other populations in uniform.

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How Should Businesses Respond to Bad Online Reviews?

How Should Businesses Respond to Bad Online Reviews?

According to Forbes, 72% of people trust online reviews just as much as they would trust the opinion of a friend or […]

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Social Science in Action: Ferguson Is a Serious Outlier

Social Science in Action: Ferguson Is a Serious Outlier

One black city council member is not nearly enough. In a study of city councils, only one place in America had a greater representational disparity than Ferguson, Missouri.

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Children’s Perceptions: Teachers are Girls, Scientists are Boys

Children’s Perceptions: Teachers are Girls, Scientists are Boys

If you were to draw a ‘scientist,’ what would be the distinguishing features? Martin Rowley and James Hartley look at psychology studies which have evaluated children’s perceptions of scientists, all confirming stereotypical views of scientists as predominately white and male.

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A Warm Welcome to Journal of Management Education’s New Co-Editors!

A Warm Welcome to Journal of Management Education’s New Co-Editors!

We’re pleased to welcome new Journal of Management Education editors Jeanie M. Forray and Kathy Lund Dean. Drs. Forray and Dean discuss […]

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