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 […]
Martha Newson on Identity Fusion
Martha Newson, linked to the universities of Oxford and Kent, describes how fans of football often fuse their own identities into a tightly bonded group (even as they retain their individuality).
Paths from a PhD to the Private Sector
The impact of the pandemic on all sectors is only beginning to emerge and given the need for greater flexibility, adaptability and […]
Threading the Needle: Balancing Core Values in Servicescapes
How can service providers serve both customers’ security and their need for autonomy? In a study of the nursing homes, the authors tackle that question.
Why Don’t Multi-National Initiatives Always Work Equally in All Locations?
The enterprise had experienced governance issues in some territories and efforts to roll out a global ethical conduct program proved less effective in certain parts of the world than in others. This could not just be ascribed to local execution or lack thereof, so I became intrigued to understand and explain this.
Event: Advancing the Well-Being of LGBTQI+ Populations
Join the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine for a free event discussing the report, Understanding the Well-Being of LGBTQI+ Populations. […]
A Micro Syllabus on Asian American Experiences and Politics
Un-modeling the ‘model minority’ — a term often used to describe Asian American populations in the United States — is a crucial […]
Watch the Forum: A Turning Point for International Climate Policy
On May 13, the American Academy of Political and Social Science hosted an online seminar, co-sponsored by SAGE Publishing, that featured presentations […]
Olivier Sibony on Decision-Making
In the context of human action, management professor at HEC Paris and former McKinsey senior partner Olivier Sibony defines “noise” as the unwanted variability in human judgment.
