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 […]
Much Ado about Conflict?
There is increasing agreement that the world is warming and that there is a significant man-made contribution. But uncertainty continues about many of the physical consequences of climate change and even more so about the social effects.
Is Paternalism an ”Asset” or a ”Liability”?
Francesco Chirico, Mattias Nordqvist, both of Jönköping International Business School, Gianluca Colombo, University of Lugano, and Edoardo Mollona, University of Bologna, published “Simulating Dynamic […]
How Can Significance Tests Be Deinstitutionalized?
Marc Orlitzky, Penn State University, published “How Can Significance Tests Be Deinstitutionalized?” on December 12th, 2011 in Organizational Research Methods. To read other […]
Being Tough or Being Nice?
Joachim Hüffmeier, University of Münster, Philipp Alexander Freund, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Alfred Zerres, Klaus Backhaus and Guido Hertel, all of University of Münster, […]
Round-up of recent social science research (from SAGE Insight)
Olympic massacre to the Olympic Stress Syndrome (International Review for the Sociology of Sport) Tobacco consumption and the poor (Ethnography)
Social science sites of the week
Gov.uk launched. Beta site opens for public testing. It is the intention that this will eventually replace Directgov as a single one […]
Measuring the Effectiveness of Mutual Learning for Taiwan’s Tourist Hotels with the DEA Approach
Chung-Te Ting, Chang Jung Christian University, and Chin-Wei Huang, Taiwan Shoufu University, published “Measuring the Effectiveness of Mutual Learning for Taiwan’s Tourist Hotels with […]
Conclusion: The New Common Sense
The connection between money, degrees, employability, and the ‘real-world’ relevance of academic work has been hammered so relentlessly into our minds that is has become virtually possible to eschew.
