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 […]
Zika – What Are the Real Lessons from Ebola?
Another disease in the tropics has the World Health Organisation in a lather, and again biomedicine’s response will not be all that useful in the short term. Social science can help now to address the underlying problems that help the Zika virus to spread — if policymakers will listen.
William H. Starbuck on How Journals Can Improve Research Practices in Social Sciences
This year marks the 60th Anniversary of Administrative Science Quarterly, presenting an opportunity to not only celebrate the success of the journal […]
University Amenities and University Food Banks
Is it possible, asks our Michelle Stack, to have an excellent university that is inequitable?
Award-Winning Journal of Management Education Article on Learning-Inhibitory Introductory Textbooks
Robert A. Snyder of Northern Kentucky University recently won the first Ruane National Prize for Innovation in Business Education for his article, “Let’s Burn […]
A Nobel Laureate Explains Peer Review’s Ins and Outs
The author of the new book ‘The Knowledge War’ discusses the intricacies of peer review as practiced, and concludes with a clarion call for reviewers and editors to remember their duties, not their interests.
Is Value Creation from Human Connection an Area of Opportunity for Companies to Stand Out?
Company executives believe they know the value of their product or service they provide, but the true judge of value comes from […]
What Social Science Tells Us About the Inevitability of the Filthy Rich
A new report from Oxfam about the astounding concentration of wealth among tiny subset of the 1 percent raises the question, ‘Is inequality inevitable in human society?’
Book Review: Organizational Resilience: How Learning Sustains Organizations in Crisis, Disaster, and Breakdowns
D. Christopher Kayes: Organizational Resilience: How Learning Sustains Organizations in Crisis, Disaster, and Breakdowns. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. 171 pp. […]
