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 […]
Statistics on Hispanic Population Obscured by Census Data
When the fixed categories of a census erase the diversity of a population, the gross miscalculations that result may harm a country’s ability to appropriately respond to the needs of its people.
Destructive Leadership and Interdisciplinary Research: Amusing or Bemusing?
Jeremy Mackey, an associate professor of management at Auburn University, discusses the importance of interdisciplinary research and answers questions about the paper, “Musing about Interdisciplinary Research: Is Interdisciplinary Research Amusing or Bemusing?”
What Do We Know About Entrepreneurship and Peace? And What Do We Need to Find Out?
As violent conflicts become both more pervasive and more localized, a better understanding of how entrepreneurship and peace interact in conflict zones will prove most useful.
Pathways to Foster Employee Engagement Towards Sustainability
How can organizations get their members to engage in sustainability practices? The authors outlines several mechanisms.
Special Collection on ‘Civic Life of Cities’ Puts Civil Society Organizations in Their Place
A multi-place research project in six cities worldwide in the journal ‘Global Perspectives’ brings a new angle to a examination of the civic life of cities.
Gurminder Bhambra on Three Challenges for Reparatory Social Science
Reflecting on work uncovering the colonial genealogies of foundational works in the social sciences, Gurminder K Bhambra argues for a reparatory social science and highlights three challenges that any reparatory project must face in order to be successful.
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.
Making the Invisible Visible
Despite their pertinence for academia, the authors found little methodological guidance on one of ‘The’ key and most time-intensive steps in meta-analytic research projects – Coding.
