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 […]
What Do Resource and Capability-Based Theories Propose?
Michael J. Leiblein, Ohio State University, published “What Do Resource- and Capability-Based Theories Propose?” in the July 2011 issue of the Journal of […]
Money isn’t everything for well-being
A new study from the University of Chicago suggests that traditional measures of prosperity are not the best gauges of overall well-being. […]
Protecting research degrees: why we must continue to train PhD students
This was originally published on the Guardian Higher Education Network blog. By Paul Wellings At around this time of year, at least […]
New national synthesis center to bring together environmental and social science
The National Science Foundation has recently funded a national synthesis center at the University of Maryland that will integrate, for the first […]
A Case Study of a Culinary Tourism Campaign in Germany
“A Case Study of a Culinary Tourism Campaign in Germany: Implications for Strategy Making and Successful Implementation” was published by Michael C. […]
Weekly overview of social science news
Inadequate funds impede social science R&D Financial Express ICMR to begin behavioural and social science research on microbicides for HIV prevention pharmabiz.com […]
Visitor Centers, Collaboration, and the Role of Local Food and Beverage as Regional Tourism Development Tools
Abel Duarte Alonso, University of Western Sydney; Edith Cowan University, and Yi Liu, Curtin University, published “Visitor Centers, Collaboration, and the Role […]
Consumers’ Responses to Table Spacing in Restaurants
Stephani K. A. Robson, Sheryl E. Kimes, Franklin D. Becker and Gary W. Evans, all of Cornell University, published “Consumers’ Responses to Table Spacing […]
