Archives for 2023

Fake News, Misinformation Focus of New Microsite
Resources
October 30, 2023

Fake News, Misinformation Focus of New Microsite

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Our Academic-Industry ‘Research Sprints’ Can Solve Problems in 30 Days
Infrastructure
October 26, 2023

Our Academic-Industry ‘Research Sprints’ Can Solve Problems in 30 Days

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Berggruen Philosophy Prize Awarded to Sociologist Patricia Hill Collins
Recognition
October 24, 2023

Berggruen Philosophy Prize Awarded to Sociologist Patricia Hill Collins

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Political Studies Association Annual Lecture Offers Insight into UK 2024 General Election
Event
October 23, 2023

Political Studies Association Annual Lecture Offers Insight into UK 2024 General Election

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Organized Creativity: Creative Processes and Constraints

Organized Creativity: Creative Processes and Constraints

Creativity is often associated with freedom, but creatives like songwriters must work within constraints as well. Sociologist and musician Tobias Theel discusses constraints and the creative process in his reflection on “Organizing Creativity With Constraints—Insights From Popular Music Songwriting Teams,” which was written with Jörg Sydow and recently published in the Journal of Management Inquiry (JMI).

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Top Five Takeaways from AOM on Business and Management in a Challenging World 

Top Five Takeaways from AOM on Business and Management in a Challenging World 

Some clear themes emerged across the divisions and sub-disciplines at the Academy of management annual meeting this year, which we’ve been reflecting on and refer to as our “Top 5” takeaway themes for business and management in 2023. 

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The Many Wins Represented by Claudia Goldin’s  Nobel Prize

The Many Wins Represented by Claudia Goldin’s Nobel Prize

Decades of research have seen economic historian Claudia Goldin methodically collate data and archival stories, detective style, to uncover explanations for the rise and fall (and rise again) of women’s paid employment over the centuries

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Harvard’s Claudia Goldin Receives Nobel for Work on Gender Labor Gap

Harvard’s Claudia Goldin Receives Nobel for Work on Gender Labor Gap

Economic historian and labor economist Claudia Goldin on Monday received the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2023, commonly known as the Nobel in economics. The citation from the Nobel Committee cited Goldin “for having advanced our understanding of women’s labor market outcomes.”

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Long Covid – A Contested Disorder

Long Covid – A Contested Disorder

All pandemics of novel infectious diseases are accompanied by social pandemics of fear and action. Unless the social pandemics are artificially prolonged, […]

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Britain’s Academy of Social Sciences Names 47 New Fellows

Britain’s Academy of Social Sciences Names 47 New Fellows

Forty-seven leading social scientists have been named to the Autumn 2023 cohort of fellows for Britain’s Academy of Social Sciences.

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Hal Hershfield on How We Perceive Our Future Selves

Hal Hershfield on How We Perceive Our Future Selves

On his institutional web homepage at the University of California-Los Angeles’s Anderson School of Management, psychologist Hal Hershfield posts one statement in big italic type: “My research asks, ‘How can we help move people from who they are now to who they’ll be in the future in a way that maximizes well-being?”

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How Intelligent is Artificial Intelligence?

How Intelligent is Artificial Intelligence?

Cryptocurrencies are so last year. Today’s moral panic is about AI and machine learning. Governments around the world are hastening to adopt […]

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