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 […]
Common Beliefs and Reality About PLS
[Editor’s Note: We’re pleased to welcome Dr. Jörg Henseler, who was the corresponding author on the article, “Common Beliefs and Reality About […]
Surviving as Activist Academics in an Authoritarian State
For more than a decade a group of intellectual freedom fighters survived at Egyptian universities only to see their movement falter just when political freedoms expanded
Special Issue on Assessment in Management Education!
Do students learn what their professors intend them to learn? What are the challenges associated with effective utilization of rubrics? What is […]
House Panel Wants to Strip That $50 Million from SBE Again
The funding seesaw for that corner of the federal government that pays for a majority of university-based social science in the United States swung lower on Wednesday afternoon.
Social Science Left Behind as China Embraces Open Access
China’s apparent reluctance to publish it social science and humanities scholarship openly is less about what it lets out, argues Michael Hockx, and more about what opening up might let in.
Performative Social Science?
The arts can have a role in both conducting social science and in getting into the hands of the wider community, argues Kip Jones, and should be in the quiver of research methods. Plus, it takes a step away from using PowerPoint!
Jerry Davis asks “Why Do We Still Have Journals?”
Gerald F. Davis, editor of Administrative Science Quarterly, explores this question in his editorial essay from the June issue of from Administrative Science […]
First Citizen of the Caribbean: Norman Girvan, 1941-2014
Economist Norman Girvan, one of the Caribbean’s most respected social scientists and a consistent and loud voice for greater unity in the region, died last month.
