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 […]
A Glimpse Into the Shadow Economy
By its very nature, the shadow economy is difficult to define. The new Special Issue of Public Finance Review, “The Shadow Economy, […]
Mapping Out the Landscape of Family Business
As the crucial domain of family business evolves, researchers and practitioners continue to strive for greater understanding of this rapidly growing and […]
Book Review: What Every Environmentalist Needs To Know About Capitalism
Magdoff, F., & Foster, J. B. (2011). What Every Environmentalist Needs To Know About Capitalism: A Citizen’s Guide to Capitalism and the […]
Weekly Overview of Social Science News
Social Science Research Symposium – McGill Reporter Funding NIH behavioral research is a waste of money – Baltimore Sun Study maps the future of […]
Book Review: Wall Street Women
Melissa S. Fisher: Wall Street Women. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. 227 pp. $22.95, paperback; $79.95, cloth. Read the review by […]
Two Creative Minds Can Be Better Than One
Research has shown that, as a rule, groups tend to be less creative than individuals working alone. But it doesn’t have to […]
Do Female Leaders Need To Be Masculine, Feminine, or Both?
For years, women in leadership have faced the so-called “double bind”: lead in a friendly and collaborative (i.e. feminine) way, and you […]
The Humanities as Human Relations
Do the Humanities not have an intellectual basis as legitimate and rigorous as that of the natural and social sciences? And are not the Humanities in fact an essential part of higher education? Try considering the Humanities as a form of Human Relations.
