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 […]
Leadership: Theory and Practice
Peter Northouse’s Leadership: Theory and Practice, Sixth Edition, is now available! Adopted at more than 1,000 colleges and universities worldwide, the market-leading […]
My Social Science Career: Interview with George Ritzer
As part of a series of occasional interviews with leading social scientists George Ritzer, Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, spoke to socialsciencespace about his influences in the field.
Educating Managers to Create Healthy Workplaces
Brad Gilbreath, Colorado State University–Pueblo, published “Educating Managers to Create Healthy Workplaces” on December 7th, 2011 in the Journal of Management Education. To […]
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)
