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 […]
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. […]
I Have a Journal Article. How Do I Write a Blog Post About it?
If you can really do communication in an accessible way, explains Patrick Dunleavy, your writing may also circulate widely in other disciplines and in the external world outside universities, enhancing your reputation there. And you are in luck – he also explains one way to do that.
Social Science’s Impact on Society, Circa 2065: Ian Quigg
In the final installment of the 10 top essays submitted to the ESRC reflecting on how a social science-influenced world will look in 2015, we present Ian Quigg’s ruminations on what capitalism will look like after another half century’s buffeting by the ‘perennial gale of creative destruction.’
Good in Theory, Bad in Practice: Corporate Social Marketing in the Alcohol Industry
Corporate social marketing (CSM) campaigns are used to improve the image of a wide variety of companies. Each CSM initiative is unique, […]
