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 […]
Rebel Manhood
With poverty now rising to levels not seen in a generation, many scholars are revisiting the still controversial theories connecting culture to class. Currently the great recession is accelerating the outsourcing and deindustrialization that has been decimating the economic well-being of all Americans for almost a generation.
Why Open Access will Stifle Innovation
It is curious that the UK government department promoting Business, Innovation and Skills should be so committed to a policy that might almost be designed to achieve the opposite effect.
The CSR Agenda: Part 5 of 5
As we conclude this week’s series on corporate social responsibility, we bring you thought-provoking reflections from global business leaders and management scholars […]
Some thoughts on attitudes towards foreign students in the UK
When I was a student, I had teachers who spoke about opportunities to study abroad in terms of things like the ability to widen one’s emotional and intellectual horizon.To today’s hardboiled politicians, journalists, and academic managers, these views must seem quaint and laughable.
The CSR Agenda: Part 4 of 5
On Tuesday, Forbes published a case study about a corporate social responsibility strategy that spelled the difference between life and death: Around […]
Economic Inequality and Political Power (Part 3 of 3)
Faith in the wisdom of the affluent to guide public policy has been sorely tested by the enormous costs in money and human suffering resulting from the Great Recession. My data cast further doubt on the notion that representational inequality arises from the greater knowledge or better judgment of those with higher incomes.
The CSR Agenda: Part 3 of 5
Editor’s note: Today we continue our series on corporate social responsibility with top-tier research that answers key questions in the debate. Have […]
The CSR Agenda: Part 2 of 5
Editor’s note: Today we continue our series on corporate social responsibility, presenting top-tier research that answers key questions in the debate. Be […]
