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 […]
Methodological Issues in Strategy and Strategic Management Research: New ORM Virtual Feature Issue
Organizational Research Methods has a new Virtual Issue on the topic of Methodological Issues in Strategy and Strategic Management Research, with all […]
Is Self-Plagiarism a Scourge of the Academy?
Here’s an ethical question or two — is it OK to re-use your own words in a new written piece, or is there an expectation of “exclusivity of the written word for each publication”? Drexel’s Jamie L. Callahan examines the moral panic surrounding self-plagiarism.
Using Simulation as a Training Tool for Project Management
Educators work hard to make sure their pupils are prepared for their chosen field of work. Inside a classroom, however, this can […]
Does Having Healthy Self-Esteem Lead to a More Successful Career?
Every day there are many factors that affect work productivity. Stress and exhaustion, for example, have understandably negative effects, however what type […]
CVS Extinguishes Tobacco Sales: An Academic Review
A roundup of social science research that shines a light on a major American retailer’s decision to stop selling tobacco products from its stores.
Craig Calhoun on Protest Movements
In the latest edition of Social Science Bites, American sociologist Craig Calhoun discussed the formation of protest movement and the role of social science in addressing and understanding these outputs of social change.
Video: Gauging the Size of the Safety Net’s Holes
During the Great Recession government programs were supposed to shelter the worst-hit Americans from the worst of the crisis. Did they, and what’s been the fallout since? Join us for a live broadcast answering those questions.
MLK Weekend Reading: Book Review: Documenting Desegregation: Racial and Gender Segregation in Private-sector Employment since the Civil Rights Act
Want to learn more about how the Civil Rights Movement affected the workplace this Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend? Kevin Stainback and […]
