Social Science posts
- June 30, 2009
- 06:01 PM
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Supply chain management – the new research cocktail?
by Jan Husdal in Jan Husdal
Supply Chain Management needs a new way to pursue research, a new way that is focused on theory building based on learned borrowing from other disciplines. That is how academians can breathe new life into the study of supply chain management. So say Michael E. Smith and Lee Buddress in their 2005 article, Supply chain management: borrowing our way to a discipline. But what do they actually mean? And why does supply chain management need a wider horizon in the first place?... Read more »
Smith, M., & Buddress, L. (2005) Supply chain management: borrowing our way to a discipline. International Journal of Services and Operations Management, 1(4), 305. DOI: 10.1504/IJSOM.2005.007495
- June 30, 2009
- 12:03 AM
- 41 views
Human Endeavor of War
by Randy Borum in Science of Global Security & Armed Conflict
Using more machines in war may diminish a force's chance of success according to a new study authored by Jason Lyall of Princeton and Isaiah Wilson III of the US Military Academy.... Read more »
Lyall, J., & Wilson, I. (2009) Rage Against the Machines: Explaining Outcomes in Counterinsurgency Wars. International Organization, 63(01), 67. DOI: 10.1017/S0020818309090031
- June 28, 2009
- 06:01 PM
- 28 views
Supply chain flexibility – a complete literature review?
by Jan Husdal in Jan Husdal
Someone had to come up with this, it was just a matter of time, and it is no suprise that this article comes from India, one of the major providers of global outsourcing for many industries. In an article reviewing some 100 references, Babu & More (2008) Perspectives, practices and future of supply chain flexibility, the focus is on anything supply chain flexibility, really anything that relates to supply chain flexibility. And honestly, I must say, they don't leave much ground uncovered.... Read more »
More, D., & Babu, A. (2008) Perspectives, practices and future of supply chain flexibility. International Journal of Business Excellence, 1(3), 302. DOI: 10.1504/IJBEX.2008.017885
- June 27, 2009
- 06:08 PM
- 49 views
Why should government welfare mean less religion?
It looks like my paper in Journal of Religion and Society should be published any day now! I'll post a summary here when it is - this post is by way of a bit of background.Here's a big question: why are there more religious people in some countries than others? To some extent, that's easy to explain. Richer countries tend to have fewer religious people. But why, for example, is the USA so religious relative to European countries?This was a question that Anthony Gill and Erik Lundsgaarde tackled ........ Read more »
Gill, A. (2004) State Welfare Spending and Religiosity: A Cross-National Analysis. Rationality and Society, 16(4), 399-436. DOI: 10.1177/1043463104046694
Paul, Gregory S. (2006) Cross-National Correlations of Quantifiable Societal Health with Popular Religiosity and Secularism in the Prosperous Democracies: A First Look. Journal of Religion and Society. DOI: http://moses.creighton.edu/JRS/2005/2005-11.html
- June 27, 2009
- 01:33 PM
- 44 views
Internet use among the poor: it’s not funny and it doesn’t mitigate inequalities (eng)
by ---a in Bodyspacesociety.eu
Robinson, L. (2009). A taste for the necessary. A Bourdieuian approach to digital inequality Information, Communication & Society, 12 (4), 488-507 DOI: 10.1080/13691180902857678
The “Diversity” issue of the journal Information, Communication and Society is out and it’s entirely devoted to the Communication and Information Technologies section of the American Sociological Association (CITASA). Laura Robinson’s remarkable article explores digital inequality among ........ Read more »
Robinson, L. (2009) A taste for the necessary. A Bourdieuian approach to digital inequality. Information, Communication , 12(4), 488-507. DOI: 10.1080/13691180902857678
- June 26, 2009
- 09:36 PM
- 44 views
Kim (2008) The Role of Task-Induced Involvement and Learner Proficiency in L2 Vocabulary Acquisition
by Samuel Joseph in linklens
Cited by 1 [ATGSATOP]Another paper that I am reading as part of a meta-analysis of second language vocabulary learning. I had started to read this and then paused for three weeks while I read three background theoretical papers (Laufer & Hulstijn, 2001; Hulstijn, 2001; Hulstijin, 2003) that made this one much easier to understand.This paper is an experimental study in two parts designed to test L&H's involvement load hypothesis. One concern is control of time on task, since this varied........ Read more »
Kim, Y. (2008) The Role of Task-Induced Involvement and Learner Proficiency in L2 Vocabulary Acquisition. Language Learning, 58(2), 285-325. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2008.00442.x
- June 25, 2009
- 12:24 PM
- 42 views
Darwin and the "mega-theria" of Patagonia
Richard Owen's restoration of Glyptodon. From Brinkman (2009).
Perhaps one of the primary reasons that there is so much to say about Charles Darwin is that he left us so much material to scrutinize. Outside of his famous printed works there are numerous notebooks and a staggering amount of personal correspondence which are constantly being parsed for insights into how he formulated his evolutionary ideas. Indeed, there is still scholarly debate about when Darwin embraced the idea of evolution ........ Read more »
Brinkman, P. (2009) Charles Darwin’s Beagle Voyage, Fossil Vertebrate Succession, and “The Gradual Birth . Journal of the History of Biology. DOI: 10.1007/s10739-009-9189-9
- June 25, 2009
- 06:13 AM
- 54 views
Are 1 in 64 Kids Autistic?
by Neuroskeptic in Neuroskeptic
Quite possibly, yes. In the last post I discussed the interesting background to a new paper about the prevalence of autism in British children, Prevalence of autism-spectrum conditions: UK school-based population study. Here's some more about the study itself.The authors, Simon Baron-Cohen et al from the University of Cambridge, set out to assess the prevalence of “autistic spectrum conditions” in the county of Cambridgeshire, England, by sampling all of the school children aged 5 to 9 years........ Read more »
Baron-Cohen, S., Scott, F., Allison, C., Williams, J., Bolton, P., Matthews, F., & Brayne, C. (2009) Prevalence of autism-spectrum conditions: UK school-based population study. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 194(6), 500-509. DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.108.059345
- June 24, 2009
- 06:01 PM
- 52 views
Trust, Control and Risk in Strategic Alliances
by Jan Husdal in Jan Husdal
Can strategic alliances really work? In Trust, Control and Risk in Strategic Alliances, Das & Teng (2001) propose a new integrated framework for these three constructs in the context of strategic alliances. A strategic alliance is a form of cooperation and all forms of cooperation are wrought with risk, as yesterday’s article on why all [...]... Read more »
Das, T., & Teng, B. (2001) Trust, Control, and Risk in Strategic Alliances: An Integrated Framework. Organization Studies, 22(2), 251-283. DOI: 10.1177/0170840601222004
- June 24, 2009
- 05:14 PM
- 70 views
The more government interferes with religion, the less satisfaction it brings you
It's well known that, if you take a cross section of a typical western society, the people who are most likely to say that they are happy and satisfied with their lives are the religious. That's a fact that's often put forward as an argument for the government to encourage religious involvement.Marta Elliott (University of Nevada) and R David Hayward (Duke University) have analysed data from 65 countries in the World Values Survey to see how 'life satisfaction', religious identity and attendance........ Read more »
Elliott, M., & Hayward, R. (2009) Religion and Life Satisfaction Worldwide: The Role of Government Regulation. Sociology of Religion. DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srp028
- June 24, 2009
- 09:10 AM
- 51 views
ETHICS GUIDELINES: LETTING THE POWERFUL OFF THE HOOK, HANGING SUBORDINATES OUT TO DRY
by Christopher Leo in Christopher Leo
I'm an ethics bureaucrat - a lowly one at the moment, a member of my departmental ethics committee. I don't like the job, but I stick with it because it keeps me in touch with a system that has to change. The better I understand the system, the better my chances of helping to bring about a change.
In fact, the system changes all the time, sometimes for the better, but mostly for the worse. The most frequent changes for the worse come, not from Canada's Tri-Council Guidelines, which I criticize........ Read more »
James Weinstein. (2007) Institutional Review Boards and the Constitution. Northwestern University Law Review, 101(2), 493-562.
- June 23, 2009
- 02:09 PM
- 100 views
A rare instance where it's not better to be bilingual
by Dave Munger in Cognitive Daily
I've always been amazed by people who are truly bilingual. While I've studied languages in school, I've never been able to seamlessly switch between languages, and even my best non-English language, French, is choppy at best. Compare this to the people I see in restaurants or on the subway, who can have conversations in two languages at once, speaking each language with equal fluency. They might tell a story in English, but save the punch line for Spanish. If a monolingual person talks to them, ........ Read more »
Treccani, B., Argyri, E., Sorace, A., & Sala, S. (2009) Spatial negative priming in bilingualism. Psychonomic Bulletin , 16(2), 320-327. DOI: 10.3758/PBR.16.2.320
- June 22, 2009
- 06:02 PM
- 75 views
Biting the hand that feeds. Or why all firms are snakes.
by Jan Husdal in Jan Husdal
‘All firms are snakes’. So says Paul D. Cousins in A conceptual model for managing long-term inter-organisational relationships, published in 2002. ‘They are maximisers and satisfiers concerned with their own survival and self-interest’. I find that a rather harsh statement. How are collaboration and relationship management possible in such an environment? Do we really need to cooperate anyway?... Read more »
COUSINS, P. (2002) A conceptual model for managing long-term inter-organisational relationships. European Journal of Purchasing , 8(2), 71-82. DOI: 10.1016/S0969-7012(01)00006-5
- June 22, 2009
- 03:19 PM
- 69 views
Bouncing back – resilience
by Adiemusfree in Healthskills: Skills for Healthy Living
After looking at positive coping in my post from yesterday, I hoped to bring an assessment to light – and lo and behold I found one!
This brief assessment differs from other resilience measures in that it looks at recovery, resistance, growth and adaptation rather than simply the resources a person might bring into a stressful [...]... Read more »
Smith, B., Dalen, J., Wiggins, K., Tooley, E., Christopher, P., & Bernard, J. (2008) The brief resilience scale: Assessing the ability to bounce back. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 15(3), 194-200. DOI: 10.1080/10705500802222972
- June 21, 2009
- 06:05 PM
- 66 views
Does product design have an impact on supply chain risk?
by Jan Husdal in Jan Husdal
Is it possible that supply chain risk is a result of unfortunate product design? Is it possible that supply chain risk does not only relate to the supply chain itself, but just as much to what is in the supply chain? What is in the supply chain is determined by a design process, and consequently, [...]... Read more »
Khan, O., Christopher, M., & Burnes, B. (2008) The impact of product design on supply chain risk: a case study. International Journal of Physical Distribution , 38(5), 412-432. DOI: 10.1108/09600030810882834
- June 19, 2009
- 03:27 AM
- 105 views
Lies, damned lies, and scientific misconduct
by Jacob Aron in Just A Theory
“Science is inevitably biased to some extent,” says Dr Daniele Fanelli, “because it’s made by human beings.” One might easily dismiss this claim as unfounded, but Fanelli has the numbers to back it up. His recent research paper combined over 20 previous studies on scientific misconduct, and found that nearly 2% of scientists admit to [...]... Read more »
Fanelli, D. (2009) How Many Scientists Fabricate and Falsify Research? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Survey Data. PLoS ONE, 4(5). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005738
- June 18, 2009
- 11:26 PM
- 78 views
The latest trends in logistics and supply chain management research
by Jan Husdal in Jan Husdal
What is at the forefront of current research in supply chain management and logistics right now? I know, thanks to to Gyöngi Kovács at interorganisational.org, who attended the NOFOMA 2009 conference, where Emerald, one of the world's leading publishers of management journals, presented some statistics on which articles that were most downloaded from their online journals during the first quarter of 2009.... Read more »
Pålsson, H., & Johansson, O. (2009) Supply chain integration obtained through uniquely labelled goods: A survey of Swedish manufacturing industries. International Journal of Physical Distribution , 39(1), 28-46. DOI: 10.1108/09600030910929174
Christopher, M., & Lee, H. (2004) Mitigating supply chain risk through improved confidence. International Journal of Physical Distribution , 34(5), 388-396. DOI: 10.1108/09600030410545436
Hanafi, J., Kara, S., & Kaebernick, H. (2008) Reverse logistics strategies for end-of-life products. The International Journal of Logistics Management, 19(3), 367-388. DOI: 10.1108/09574090810919206
Masson, R., Iosif, L., MacKerron, G., & Fernie, J. (2007) Managing complexity in agile global fashion industry supply chains. The International Journal of Logistics Management, 18(2), 238-254. DOI: 10.1108/09574090710816959
Cho, J., Ozment, J., & Sink, H. (2008) Logistics capability, logistics outsourcing and firm performance in an e-commerce market. International Journal of Physical Distribution , 38(5), 336-359. DOI: 10.1108/09600030810882825
Spekman, R., & II, P. (2006) RFID: from concept to implementation. International Journal of Physical Distribution , 36(10), 736-754. DOI: 10.1108/09600030610714571
- June 18, 2009
- 08:56 AM
- 35 views
Science News: Week of June 14, 2009
by Susan Steinhardt in BioData Blogs
Our weekly compilation of science news for the week of June 14, 2009.... Read more »
Smith, G., Vijaykrishna, D., Bahl, J., Lycett, S., Worobey, M., Pybus, O., Ma, S., Cheung, C., Raghwani, J., Bhatt, S.... (2009) Origins and evolutionary genomics of the 2009 swine-origin H1N1 influenza A epidemic. Nature. DOI: 10.1038/nature08182
Caspi, A. (2003) Influence of Life Stress on Depression: Moderation by a Polymorphism in the 5-HTT Gene. Science, 301(5631), 386-389. DOI: 10.1126/science.1083968
Yan, P., Wang, T., Newton, G., Knyushko, T., Xiong, Y., Bigelow, D., Squier, T., & Mayer, M. (2009) A Targeted Releasable Affinity Probe (TRAP) for In Vivo Photocrosslinking. ChemBioChem, 10(9), 1507-1518. DOI: 10.1002/cbic.200900029
- June 17, 2009
- 06:33 PM
- 81 views
Resilience revisited
by Jan Husdal in Jan Husdal
How many ways are there for defining vulnerability and criticality, really? Traditionally, risk matrixes have a likelihood/impact approach, but not always. Yesterday, I was examining a criticality/vulnerability matrix. Today, I will take a closer look at a criticality/preparedness matrix with a third susceptibility dimension added to it, as presented in the New Zealand research project [...]... Read more »
Erica Seville, David Brunsdon, Andre Dantas, Jason Le Masurier, Suzanne Wilkinson, & John Vargo. (2008) Organisational resilience: Researching the reality of New Zealand organisations. Journal of Business Continuity , 2(3), 258-266. DOI: henrystewart.metapress.com/index/Q5W8L24Q93842U01.pdf
- June 17, 2009
- 02:20 PM
- 78 views
The Contested Landscape of Jerusalem
by John Matthew Barlow in The Complex Terrain Laboratory
To call Jerusalem a disputed location would be an under-statement. The Temple Mount in that city might be the most hotly contested piece of real estate on the planet, sacred as it is to the 3 major western religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Archaeologists believe that there has been a city on the site of Jerusalem since about 2600 BCE, meaning that for nearly 5000 years, various groups of people have fought over the landscape: Judeans, Israelites, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Gre........ Read more »
Greenberg, R. (2009) "Towards an Inclusive Archaeology in Jerusalem: The Case of Silwan/The City of David.". Public Archaeology, 8(1), 35-50. DOI: 10.1179/175355309X402745
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