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 is Always Passing Us by But Also Missing in Hierarchy Research? Time
The most influential theory about informal hierarchies is built on the assumption that informal hierarchies don’t change. However, these authors’ work shows that informal hierarchies do change at predictable times.
Social and Behavioral Scientists Named in Australia Day Honors
The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia released the 2022 Australia Day Honours List, and sprinkled among the 1,040 honorees were several prominent Antipodean social and behavioral scientists.
Understanding Internationalisation of Informal African Firms Through A Network Perspective
The work of Christopher Boafo, Richard Afriyie Owusu and Karine Guiderdoni-Jourdain offers an understanding of the internationalization of informal smaller firms in two major enterprise clusters in a sub-Saharan African economy through a network perspective.
Nominations Invited for Annual Downs Intellectual Freedom Award
The Robert B. Downs Intellectual Freedom Award acknowledges individuals or groups who have furthered the cause of intellectual freedom, particularly as it impacts libraries and information centers and the dissemination of ideas.
Unlocking Real-World Data Offers Real Benefits to Public Health
The COVID-19 pandemic has surfaced the potential and risks of linked real word datasets to accelerate and produce new improvements in public health. In this post, the authors outline the opportunities and challenges of using real world data as part of the ‘Unlocking data to inform public health policy and practice’ project.
Organized Crime and Its Effect on New Businesses
The authors wanted to understand how new businesses in particular might be influenced by prevalent organized crime because they are among the smallest and most fragile organizations.
Coping with the Inclusiveness-Efficiency Paradox in Cross-Sector Partnerships
Tension between realizing inclusiveness on the one hand, and efficiency on the other was one that accompanied and puzzled the partnership throughout its time of existence, led the authors to make it the focus of their scholarly attention.
Does Gender Bias Influence What Gets Called ‘Soft Science’?
Across studies in research described here, participants were consistently more likely to describe a discipline as a “soft science” when they’d been led to believe that proportionally more women worked in the field.
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