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 […]
Roundtable Puts Social and Behavioral Research Back on Agenda
A roundtable sponsored by the U.S. National Research Council will examine applications of social and behavioral science.
It’s Time to Take the Measure of Social Mobility
Despite its obsession with the concept of equal opportunity, the United States hasn’t actively monitored its residents’ social mobility for more than four decades. Now a group of social scientists have proposed an efficient way using existing tools to chart mobility.
Ten ‘Rules’ for Being Creative in Producing Research
Kip Jones, who from his perch as a reader in performative social science at Bournemouth University’s Centre for Qualitative Research focuses on developing tools from the arts and humanities for use by social scientists in research, offers this top 10 list of techniques to welcome in the new year.
Book Review: Plastic Money: Constructing Markets for Credit Cards in Eight Postcommunist Countries
Have some time to read before the new semester starts? Akos Rona-Tas, Alya Guseva : Plastic Money: Constructing Markets for Credit Cards […]
What Does the Future Hold?
Welcome to 2015! You may have already noticed that the hover boards and flying cars we were promised in “Back to the […]
Management INK’s Most Popular Articles of 2014
As 2014 draws to a close, we’d like to take a moment to highlight the top three most read posts of the […]
When Chasing Prestige Becomes the Prize
A survey by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics suggests that researchers appreciate the benefits of competition but also fear how it can emphasize prestige over quality
Colin Firth: Author, Actually
Authorship of an article seems like it ought to be straightforward, but of course it’s not. Even with greater scrutiny, abuse of the process — both adding the wrong people and subtracting the right ones — continues.
