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 […]
Economic Inequality and Political Power (Part 2 of 3)
In my previous post I discussed the lack of government responsiveness to the middle-class and the poor, when their policy preferences diverge […]
Environmental Disclosure: Newsweek’s Green Rankings
What does it mean to be green? Ahead of this October’s fourth annual corporate environmental scores, Thomas P. Lyon of the University […]
Shelby Hunt on Sustainable Marketing
Marketing legend Shelby D. Hunt, the Jerry S. Rawls and P.W. Horn Professor of Marketing at Texas Tech University, published “Toward the […]
The Decline of Public Debates About Higher Education in Britain
Just a few years ago, critical voices could still speak through mainstream media to highlight the dangers of the quickly accelerating commercialisation of academia. These commentators have now been pushed to the margins.
Coherent, Unified, and Meaningful Discourse
Organizations both reveal and recreate themselves through the written word. In “Discursive Activity in the Boardroom: The Role of the Minutes in […]
Beyond the Randomised Controlled Trial
Although the value of Randomised Controlled Trials in very specific contexts cannot be denied, any imperialist claims for its universal applicability and its use as a bench mark against which all other studies must to be measured needs to be challenged.
A New Tool for Evaluating Research Performance
Given the impact performance evaluations have on scholars’ careers, it is troubling to know that the judging process can lead to unreliable […]
Educating Our Future Business Leaders
Do you have a paper to submit? The Journal of Marketing Education is now accepting research on ethics, corporate social responsibility, sustainability […]
