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Overview page. Subjects: Social Sciences — Arts and Humanities.
Many sociological and anthropological definitions exist, but most tend to privilege some combination of small-scale, relative boundedness, strong affective ties, traditionalism, and...
Social network analysis of a scientist–practitioner research initiative established to facilitate science dissemination and implementation within states and communities
in Research Evaluation
October 2017; p ublished online August 2017 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Research Methods; Biological Sciences; Knowledge Management; Social Research and Statistics. 6898 words.
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This article presents a case study of a scientist–practitioner research network established by the National Cancer Institute’s State and Community...
The Transatlantic Paradox
in The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility
February 2008; p ublished online September 2009 .
Article. Subjects: Business History; Research Methods. 3779 words.
The concept of the corporation is not separable from the systems of incorporation and regulation that instantiate it. This is true of both the ‘American’ model of the corporation, with its...
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Methodological Contributions in International Business and the Direction of Academic Research Activity
in The Oxford Handbook of International Business
January 2009; p ublished online September 2009 .
Article. Subjects: International Business; Research Methods. 13547 words.
The development of the field of international business has been strongly driven by innovations in research design and methodologies. This article emphasizes this role in order to suggest...
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Critical Reflections on Labor Process Theory, Work, and Management
in The Oxford Handbook of Critical Management Studies
January 2011; p ublished online September 2009 .
Article. Subjects: Business and Management; Organizational Theory and Behaviour; Research Methods. 4487 words.
This article begins with a commentary on labour-process theory (LPT), particularly Paul Thompson's contribution to the Handbook. This provides historical background to some important...
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Theoretical Perspectives in the Study of Communication and the Internet
in The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies
January 2013; p ublished online March 2013 .
Article. Subjects: Business and Management; Knowledge Management; Research Methods. 9964 words.
This chapter exposes the prominence of different theoretical perspectives on the Internet. A broad scope of primary and secondary theories has been increasingly used to understand the...
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Green Digits: Towards an Ecology of IT Thinking
in The Oxford Handbook of Management Information Systems
July 2011; p ublished online September 2011 .
Article. Subjects: Business and Management; Knowledge Management; Research Methods. 5978 words.
This article highlights the paradoxes of information technology (IT) and IS and the promise of these as one of the solutions to our ecological dilemma. Some of these paradoxes include the...
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The Future of Organization Theory: Prospects and Limitations
in The Oxford Handbook of Organization Theory
March 2005; p ublished online September 2009 .
Article. Subjects: Business and Management; Organizational Theory and Behaviour; Research Methods. 5109 words.
Organization theory is largely about management in many of its guises and how this intermediate group relates to both its hierarchical superiors and its subordinates. It involves the...
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Research evaluation in Europe: state of the art
in Research Evaluation
August 2002; p ublished online August 2002 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Research Methods; Biological Sciences; Knowledge Management; Social Research and Statistics. 0 words.
Although there is no single European way of doing research evaluation, it has been going on since the 1970s, importantly supported by the European Community. Trends include: evaluating...
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Intra-European scientific co-operation: measuring policy impact
in Research Evaluation
August 1999; p ublished online August 1999 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Research Methods; Biological Sciences; Knowledge Management; Social Research and Statistics. 0 words.
European Union (EU) funded co-operation within the Community programme and the other public S&T co-operation taking place outside the specific remit of the EU, has grown from 4% (of...
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Practical research proposal and publication profiling
in Research Evaluation
March 2010; p ublished online March 2010 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Research Methods; Biological Sciences; Knowledge Management; Social Research and Statistics. 0 words.
We present means to enable profiling to situate research activities (such as proposals or publications) within research domains, identify cognitive and social networks, and track knowledge...
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Impact of socio-economic factors on higher education in Russia
in Research Evaluation
April 2005; p ublished online April 2005 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Research Methods; Biological Sciences; Knowledge Management; Social Research and Statistics. 0 words.
The fundamental changes in the political and economic domains in Russia in the late 1990s affected the Russian scientific community profoundly. This paper focuses on the effects on the...
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Profiles and beyond: constructing consensus on measuring research output in communication sciences
in Research Evaluation
March 2011; p ublished online March 2011 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Research Methods; Biological Sciences; Knowledge Management; Social Research and Statistics. 0 words.
Measuring research output in fields of social sciences and humanities requires particular attention to the specificities of the field, but also to national and cultural contexts. This paper...
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Service marks as indicators for innovation in knowledge-based services
in Research Evaluation
October 2009; p ublished online October 2009 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Research Methods; Biological Sciences; Knowledge Management; Social Research and Statistics. 0 words.
It has long been a tradition in the field of innovation research to use quantitative indicators to measure the extent of innovation activities and analyze them in from a comparative...
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State of the art in assessing research impact: introduction to a special issue
in Research Evaluation
September 2011; p ublished online September 2011 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Research Methods; Biological Sciences; Knowledge Management; Social Research and Statistics. 0 words.
Papers in this special issue were developed at an international workshop on ‘State of the Art in Assessing Research Impact’, hosted by the Health Economics Research Group at Brunei...
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The characteristics of highly cited researchers in Africa
in Research Evaluation
July 2018; p ublished online June 2018 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Research Methods; Biological Sciences; Knowledge Management; Social Research and Statistics. 10177 words.
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Very little is known about the characteristics of highly cited scientists in Africa. This is unfortunate as highly cited researchers are seen as key...
Challenges in developing gender-sensitive indicators for Finnish researcher training
in Research Evaluation
April 2005; p ublished online April 2005 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Research Methods; Biological Sciences; Knowledge Management; Social Research and Statistics. 0 words.
Numerous initiatives have been taken recently aimed at improving the availability and quality of human resources for European R&D. More adequately skilled researchers will be needed in...
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Collaboration structures between German immunology institutions, and gender visibility, as reflected in the Web
in Research Evaluation
August 2006; p ublished online August 2006 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Research Methods; Biological Sciences; Knowledge Management; Social Research and Statistics. 0 words.
Very few studies have examined reflection of scientific collaboration networks through coauthorship on the Web. In this paper the collaboration between 80 German institutions of immunology...
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The policy challenges of peer review: managing bias, conflict of interests and interdisciplinary assessments
in Research Evaluation
April 2006; p ublished online April 2006 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Research Methods; Biological Sciences; Knowledge Management; Social Research and Statistics. 0 words.
Characteristics and challenges of peer review are elucidated from three different perspectives: a social dynamics perspective defining peer review as an important control mechanism in the...
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Value mapping social capital outcomes in state research and development programs
in Research Evaluation
December 1999; p ublished online December 1999 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Research Methods; Biological Sciences; Knowledge Management; Social Research and Statistics. 0 words.
Increasingly, American state governments sponsor research and development (R&D) projects as a stimulus for economic development. Many of the measures used to assess these efforts, such as...
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Research productivity and the journals system: a study of immunology and microbiology authors
in Research Evaluation
March 2007; p ublished online March 2007 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Research Methods; Biological Sciences; Knowledge Management; Social Research and Statistics. 0 words.
This paper considers the role that the journals system plays in supporting scientific productivity: a critical issue for publishers, librarians and research managers at a time of...
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