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 […]
King Canute and the Cult of Zero Infection
The humility of King Canute in the face of nature is worth recalling as a check on the enthusiasm for zero-infection. It is a fine-sounding slogan but do we really want to live in a society where everything else is sacrificed to this goal?
A Time and Space for Climate Change in Business and Society Research
Most academic research on climate change at the nexus of business and society supports a view that the best agenda is enlightened business-as-usual. The authors suggest real progress needs to account for the flow of time and primacy of place.
Ellen Peters on Numeracy
A lack of ability of numbers is a serious issue in the world, in particular in the developed world, says Ellen Peters. And she’s trying to do something about that.
What Does Inclusion Actually Mean?
What does it actually mean for an organization to be inclusive? The authors of this post offer suggestions and context for organizations trying to answer that question.
How Three False Starts Stifle Open Social Science
Patrick Dunleavy argues that there have already been three false starts in open science: focusing only on isolated bits of the open agenda in ways that don’t connect and so are not meaningful; loading researchers with off-putting, external bureaucratic requirements; and risking reopening ‘sectarian’ divides between quantitative and qualitative social scientists.
(Macro)Marketing for Sustainability and Society with Mark Peterson: Watch the Teaching Business for People and Planet Webinar
“There is also a dimension of intergenerational justice, making these decisions [sustainable business practices], so that our generation is not ripping off […]
Reviewing a SSHRC-Award Effort to Connect Scientific and Indigenous Knowledge
Today, writes Carole Lévesque, we rightly insist on the importance of researchers favoring the co-production of knowledge. Research is done with Indigenous people, not on Indigenous people.
How We Talk About Entrepreneurship Inhibits Women’s Entrepreneurship
Society, the authors, find, suppresses women’s entrepreneurship just by the way it talks about entrepreneurs.
