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 […]
Data Drawn From Local Communities Ought to Be Shared With Local Communities
In the words of of one Botswanan: “There is a lot of mistrust. People come here with their research vehicles, but they do not talk to us. They do not involve us.”
Why Don’t Business Schools Publish More Impactful Research?
Two experts at Altmetric ask why have business schools not been publishing more impactful research? Are the most prominent, cited, and viral voices that publish in areas of business and economics employed outside of business schools?
Face Masks and COVID – A Failed Technology
A model is only as good as its underlying simplifying assumptions and data, notes Robert Dingwall, and in the case of testing the effectiveness of face masks to combat the spread of COVID those data are, he argues, at best fragile.
A Decades-Long Journey of Marketing and Public Policy Research to Support the Greater Good
Now more than ever, writes Maura Scott, as business professors, we must generate and disseminate knowledge that can help inform and promote business, as well as society’s greater good.
In Defense of Qualitative Research – A PhD Researcher’s Experience
The authors argues that there is a bias against qualitative research, and yet not every type of data can be handled using quantitative, and human behavior cannot always be reduced to numbers.
Positive Management Practices as Cornerstone for a Sustainable Transformation
Martin Becker discusses how positive management practices can improve employee well-being and attract talent in highly competitive labor markets.
‘Critical Ignoring’ May Be Just as Vital as Critical Thinking
Critical ignoring is the ability to choose what to ignore and where to invest one’s limited attentional capacities.
Face Masks for COVID: An Obituary?
While the full story will probably have to await the attention of historians, writes Robert Dingwall, but anyone who criticized masking was labeled as a peddler of disinformation.
