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 […]
Status Update: How Do Organizations Respond to a Dip in Status?
Status has the potential to return concrete benefits for organizations, but status is subject to change over time, which begs the question, what […]
The Deskilled Academic: Bureaucracy Defeats Scholarship
Intellectual labor comes to be largely external to the objectives of the bureaucratic regimes that dominate universities, argues our Daniel Nehring, and academics whose careers were built on intellectual labor turn out to be deskilled workers in organizational settings indifferent to their concerns.
New Podcast: Tyge Payne on Empirics in Family Business Research
In the latest podcast from Family Business Review, assistant editor Karen Vinton speaks with Tyge Payne of Texas Tech University about the article published […]
A Murder in Egypt; an Attack on Academic Freedom
While murder and torture are inherently of concern, Giulio Regeni’s case has much broader implications for higher education in the UK and beyond, argues his friend Neil Pyper.
Success Story: How the Adelante Program Uses Social Marketing to Engage Latino Youth
[We’re pleased to welcome William Douglas Evans of George Washington University. Dr. Evans recently published an article in the March 2016 issue […]
The March Issue of Administrative Science Quarterly is Now Online!
The March issue of Administrative Science Quarterly is now available and can be read online for free for the next 30 days. […]
Testing a Hypothesis? Be Upfront About It and Win $1,000
Both researchers and publishers are drawn to interesting results, and at times research bends itself to achieve those results — regardless of what hypothesis was originally under scrutiny. We must hold ourselves accountable to decisions made before seeing the data, argues David Mellor, who introduces a new prize for scholars who preregister their research.
One Size Does Not Fit All
Current efforts to solve wicked problems with a quick dusting of data are unlikely to result in socially useful answers. Luckily, there are innovative people and initiatives using a variety of methods to home in on real solutions.
