Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
Putting a Critical Perspective to Use in Management Education
The authors of a new paper on management education were motivated to pursue this research because we felt that critical thinking and the importance of having a critical approach were treated too narrowly in the traditional leadership and management literature.
Rethinking Readiness: What it Takes for Your Customers and Employees to Succeed in Today’s Networked Service Environments
Today, customers and employees need a broader form of “readiness” to successfully face fundamentally altered capability and motivational demands. Enter ‘actor ecosystem readiness.’
Entrepreneurs: Don’t Mess With Your Close Social Ties
It’s sometimes said that it’s not what you know that counts, but who you know. In the essay below, authors Kim Klyver, […]
Watch the Lecture: Like Wildfire – How Climate Justice Should Change Disaster Response
As climate change advances, communities across the United States are adapting to the increased threat of wildfires. Such disasters are expected to […]
Why Social Science? Because Vaccination is a Human—Not Technical—Process
Leveraging the sociocultural dimensions of health knowledge, not a technical focus, is what will move the needle on vaccine uptake.
Indigenous Anthropologists Call for Doing Land Acknowledgement Better
The Association of Indigenous Anthropologists requested that the American Anthropological Association officially pause land acknowledgments and the related practice of the welcoming ritual, in which Indigenous persons open conferences with prayers or blessings.
‘Are We There Yet?’ Jane Hall Looks at Women in American Political Ecosystem
The 2020 elections marked a turning point for women in U.S. politics and the media. So “are we there yet?” Ehh, not yet.
Jeffrey Ian Ross on Convict Criminology
Jeffrey Ian Ross, a professor in the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Baltimore, is one of the originators of the concept of ‘convict criminology.’
