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 […]
The Doctor Who Gave $1 Million of His Own to Keep His Gun Research Going
The eternal hunt for funding is the bane of modern research, especially when your research subject is politically sensitive. Garen Wintemute found a way–sadly not one that the average academic can copy–around that: He paid for his gun research himself.
Seven Strategies for Publishing Qualitative Research
In the April issue of Family Business Review, Trish Reay, an associate professor at the University of Alberta School of Business, offers […]
Publishing Qualitative Research
[Editor’s Note: We are pleased to reproduce Trish Reay’s editorial, “Publishing Qualitative Research” from the April issue of Family Business Review.] As […]
Universities a Safe Home for Ideas – But Only Safe Ideas
Once the cry at universities was “Dare to know!” But with speech that could make some people uncomfortable, the new cry is increasingly, “Dare to no!”
Can a Humble CEO Benefit The Company?
According to Doug Gutherie, former Dean of George Washington University School of Business and contributor to Forbes, humility is not part of […]
How Few Papers Ever Get Cited? It’s Bad, But Not THAT Bad
Reports of their death have been exaggerated: a look at the literature finds academic papers are not as uncited as recent reports would have you believe, but don’t start celebrating over the genuine figures.
Out of Whack: The Birth of Disruptive Innovation Theory
[Editor’s Note: Happy Saturday! We’re pleased to reproduce “Out of Whack: The Birth of Disruptive Innovation Theory” by Charles M. Vance from […]
Whither Violence?
Professor David Canter comments on Britain’s downward trend in violence and examines some of the factors that may underlie it besides a more expensive pint.
