In this article, co-authors Jurgen Willems and Kenn Meyfroodt reflect on the inspiration behind their open-access article, “Group Research: Why are we […] The post We Disagree to Agree: A Call to Apply Agreement Metrics More Extensively for Advancing Management Theory appeared first on Social Science Space ..read more

In this article, Vanessa C. Hasse reflects upon what drove her interest in researching rare but impactful events, as well as the implications associated with their inherent complexity and increasing frequency. The full argument is laid out in her recently published commentary, “From trailing behind to shaping the curve: Researching rare and impactful events for societal benefit,” in Business & Society. In recent times, an increasing number of phenomena that seem rare and unexpected, even unprecedented, have unfurled upon societies around the world with massive impact. Often, the specific m ..read more

In this article, Jenna Adriana Maeve Barrett, Elina Jaakkola, Jonas Heller, and Elizabeth Christine Brüggen reflect on the way that customers engage with certain brands and services. Their research article, “Customer Engagement in Utilitarian vs. Hedonic Service Contexts,” examines this topic and how different factors determine customer engagement. This article can be found in the Journal of Service Research. Customers may share their love for brands online, line up for hours to experience a new ride in an amusement park, and may excitedly tell their friends about the awesome new series they b ..read more

In the 1800s, British colonists in India set about trying to reduce the cobra population, which was making life and trade very difficult in Delhi. They began to pay a bounty for dead cobras. The strategy very quickly resulted in the widespread breeding of cobras for cash. This danger of unintended consequences is sometimes referred to as the “cobra effect.” It can also be well summed up by Goodhardt’s Law, named after British economist Charles Goodhart. He stated that, when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. This article by Lex Bouter originally appeared on The Convers ..read more

Aligning artificial intelligence products with society’s objectives is impossible, according to the newest program of the New York-based Social Science Research Council, without corporate disclosure and auditing of the potentially substantial risks associated with AI. Given this, the new program, the AI Disclosures Project, seeks to create structures that both recognize the commercial enticements of AI while ensuring that issues of safety and equity are front and center in the decisions private actors make about AI deployment. The project is led by technologist Tim O’Reilly, known for coining ..read more

The conference will focus on three themes: Engagement and Communication, Policy, Funding and Recognition, and Infrastructures, Facilities and Tools. Experts from all around the world will deliver presentations, interactive round tables, teaching workshops and more. This international gathering will bring together research managers, science policymakers, funders, knowledge exchange experts, and other relevant impact professionals from around the world to share good practices and discuss topics such as: How can we foster trust in and credibility of social science, humanities and arts research ..read more

The Accelerator For Innovation and Research Funding Experimentation (AFIRE) is a new tool dedicated to boosting and revitalizing the design, synthesis, and implementation of experiments through innovation and research funding. This tool is the result of a collaboration between the London-based Research on Research Institute (RoRI), the Innovation Growth Lab (IGL), and a plethora of additional partners, and will act as a broad research platform through which funders at any level of engagement can enhance the speed and ambition of their engagement by connecting with various experiments. Accordin ..read more

In this post, co-authors Tatiana Bachkirova and Peter Jackson reflect on coaching and other factors that led to the publishing of their research article, “What do leaders really want to learn in a workplace? A study of the shifting agendas of leadership coaching,“ found in Leadership. We are really interested in coaching: what it consists of, how it works, where it fits in the context of other organizational, economic and psychological concerns. This study was initially designed to look at what people actually talk about in coaching sessions. We didn’t feel this had been done before ..read more

Information literacy is at the heart of fostering critical thinking skills, which are essential for questioning the status quo and developing informed opinions. Educators play a pivotal role in teaching these skills, equipping students to preserve and promote democracy within society. Learn from and engage with experienced librarians, behavioral scientists, and others at Sage’s fifth annual Critical Thinking Bootcamp. ET. This online event will cover:   The role of critical thinking, education, and democracy The intersection of democracy, science, and critical thinking How soci ..read more

Retractions have a bad reputation. If an article gets retracted, it seems someone somewhere must have done something terribly wrong or even committed misconduct. Indeed, the number of retractions in 2023 was at an all time high, fueled by publishers retracting thousands of papers that were published as a result of compromised special issues. Stories around these mass retractions, but also around those of individual cases, can be sensationalist: the allure of a tale of a PI gone rogue, fabricating data at his kitchen table or misappropriating research funds to buy yachts and spor ..read more