Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Language Expert Janet Werker Awarded SHHRC Impact Gold
Canada’s Social Science and Humanities Research Council on Monday awarded five academics for their impactful research in a variety of key current issues, including language acquisition, refugees, water policy, homelessness and government surveillance.
The Business of Bumble Bees: A Look at the Relationship Between Business and Biodiversity Loss
Small though they may be, bumble bees play a large part in the environment. As pollinators, bees assist in the reproductive process […]
Book Review: How Matter Matters: Objects, Artifacts, and Materiality in Organization Studies
Paul R. Carlile, Davide Nicolini, Ann Langley, Haridmos Tsoukas , eds.: How Matter Matters: Objects, Artifacts, and Materiality in Organization Studies. Oxford: […]
Ted Cantle on Segregation
In this Social Science Bites podcast, Ted Cantle (of the post-2001 riot report that bears his name) explains how the concept of ‘parallel lives’ continues to exert a malign influence wherever communities find themselves segregated — even when they may live cheek-and-jowl.
Read Family Business Review’s December Issue!
The December 2015 issue of Family Business Review is now available to read for free for the next 30 days! The issue […]
Video: Peter Northouse on His Bestselling Leadership Textbook
The latest edition of Leadership: Theory and Practice takes a unique approach to teaching leadership theories and skills. In addition to detailed […]
Darwin of the Human Sciences: René Girard, 1923-2015
René Girard, whose academic career began in literary theory, and whose own theory of mimesis influenced people ranging from J.M. Coetzee to the founder of PayPal, died last week at his home at Stanford.
Looking for Leiden: Let’s Make Use of ALL Available Metrics
The Declaration on Research Assessment, or DORA, has yet to achieve widespread institutional support in the UK. Maybe its reception might be warmed if DORA was more like its cousin, the Leiden Manifesto.
