Quants and Poets: Advancing Methods and Methodologies in Business and Society Research

2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Crane ◽  
Irene Henriques ◽  
Bryan W. Husted
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Business And Society ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Research Methodologies ◽  
Research Challenges ◽  
Methodological Challenges ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
Society Research

Business and society research has increasingly moved from the margins to the mainstream. Although this progression has benefited from advances in empirical research, the field continues to suffer from considerable methodological challenges that hamper its development. In this introductory article to the special issue, we review how far our field has come in advancing methods and methodologies in business and society research. We also highlight the methods and methodologies covered by the contributors to this special issue and how they help address key shortcomings in our field. Finally, we suggest some promising research methodologies that can address important business and society research challenges going forward.

scholarly journals What Is Electoral Psychology?—Scope, Concepts, and Methodological Challenges for Studying Conscious and Subconscious Patterns of Electoral Behavior, Experience, and Ergonomics

Societies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
Sarah Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Electoral Behavior ◽  
Aggregate Level ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Methodological Challenges ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
Electoral Studies ◽  
Psychological Models ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Electoral Psychology ◽  
The Individual

Electoral psychology is defined as any model based on human psychology that is used to explain any electoral experience or outcome at the individual or aggregate level. Electoral psychology can also be an interface with other crucial aspects of the vote. For example, the interface between electoral psychology and electoral organization constitutes electoral ergonomics. The very nature of the models tested in electoral psychology has also led scholars in the field to complement mainstream social science methodologies with their own specific methodological approaches in order to capture the subconscious component of the vote and the subtle nature of the psychological processes determining the electoral experience and the way in which it permeates citizens’ thoughts and lives. After defining electoral psychology, this introductory article scopes its analytical roots and contemporary relevance, focuses on the importance of switching from “institution-centric” to “people-centric” conceptions of electoral behavior, and notably how it redefines key concepts such as electoral identity and consistency, and approaches questions of personality, morality, memory, identity, and emotions in electoral psychological models. Then, it discusses some of the unique methodological challenges that the field faces, notably when it comes to analyzing largely subconscious phenomena, and addresses them, before explaining how the various contributions to this Special Issue give a flavor of the scope and approaches of electoral psychology contributions to electoral studies.

Online methods and tasks in research measuring the effects of processing instruction

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Benati
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Sentence Comprehension ◽  
Short Review ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Processing Instruction ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
Online Methods ◽  
Current Special Issue

Empirical research measuring the effects of processing instruction comes largely from offline tasks. This introductory article to the current special issue provides readers with the following: (1) a brief description of processing instruction; (2) a short review of previous offline research; (3) a review of more recent online studies measuring real-time sentence comprehension.

scholarly journals Global Labour History: Perspectives from East to West, from North to South

HISTOREIN ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitra Lampropoulou ◽  
Leda Papastefanaki
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
New Synthesis ◽  
Labour History ◽  
Historical Reflection

Historical reflection on the premises, risks and limitations of the global perspective in labour history has led to a new synthesis of theory and empirical research. The article introduces the conceptual framework and the main characteristics of a flourishing research area, that of global labour history. Finally, this introductory article presents the five articles of the special issue on “Global Labour History: Perspectives from East to West, from North to South”, and discusses how each of them is in dialogue with the topics addressed by global labour history.

Rethinking Work: Pathways and Practices in Business and Society. Introduction to the Special Issue.

2019 ◽  
pp. 9-27
Author(s):  
Luigi Moschera ◽  
Mario Pezzillo Iacono ◽  
Giovanna Lo Nigro ◽  
Laura Lucia Parolin
Keyword(s):  
Business And Society ◽  
Special Issue

Governance and Business-Society Relations in Areas of Limited Statehood: An Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 000765032098508
Author(s):  
Sameer Azizi ◽  
Tanja Börzel ◽  
Hans Krause Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Social Inequality ◽  
Ethnic Diversity ◽  
Global South ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
Collective Goods ◽  
International Ngos ◽  
State Actors ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Critical Reflections

In this introductory article we explore the relationship between statehood and governance, examining in more detail how non-state actors like MNCs, international NGOs, and indigenous authorities, often under conditions of extreme economic scarcity, ethnic diversity, social inequality and violence, take part in the making of rules and the provision of collective goods. Conceptually, we focus on the literature on Areas of Limited Statehood and discuss its usefulness in exploring how business-society relations are governed in the global South, and beyond. Building on insights from this literature, among others, the four articles included in this special issue provide rich illustrations and critical reflections on the multiple, complex and often ambiguous roles of state and non-state actors operating in contemporary Syria, Nigeria, India and Palestine, with implications for conventional understandings of CSR, stakeholders, and related conceptualizations.

Critical Qualitative Inquiry: Justice Matters(ings) in (En)tangled Times

2021 ◽  
pp. 194084472110126
Author(s):  
Mirka Koro ◽  
Gaile S. Cannella ◽  
M. Francyne Huckaby ◽  
Jennifer R. Wolgemuth
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Multiple Forms ◽  
Critical Inquiry ◽  
The Past ◽  
Critical Scholarship ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
Asking Questions ◽  
Time Lead

The purpose of this special issue is to generate and expand the locations and perspectives from which justice and equity, in multiple forms, are and can be, orienting concepts for critical qualitative inquiry. Although critical inquiry originates from diverse views, concerns, and conditions, all forms would always and already address matters of privilege/harm, equity/ inequity, and justice/injustice, while at the same time challenging power-oriented dualisms, systematic western notions of progress, and capitalist gains. This introductory article describes the work of special issue authors asking questions like: How might critical qualitative inquiry build from the past while at the same time lead to more just possibilities, leading to something we might recognize as inquiry as/toward/for justice? How can critical scholarship be theorized, designed, and practiced with justice as the orienting focus within (en)tangled times, materials and material injustices?

scholarly journals Urban Developmentalism in East Asia: Geopolitical Economies, Spaces of Exception, and Networks of Expertise

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 395-403 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamie Doucette ◽  
Bae-Gyoon Park
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Urban Research ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
Asian Urbanization ◽  
A Site ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Planning Policies

This special issue highlights an exciting range of contemporary, interdisciplinary research into spatial forms, political economic processes, and planning policies that have animated East Asian urbanization. To help situate this research, this introductory article argues that the urban as form, process, and imaginary has often been absent from research on East Asian developmentalism; likewise, the influence of developmentalism on East Asian urbanization has remained under-examined in urban research. To rectify this issue, we propose a concept of urban developmentalism that is useful for highlighting the nature of the urban as a site of and for developmentalist intervention in East Asia. We then outline the contribution made by the articles in this special issue to three key themes that we feel are germane for the study of urban developmentalism across varied contexts: geopolitical economies, spaces of exception, and networks of expertise.

scholarly journals Professional identities of school leaders across international contexts

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (5) ◽  
pp. 749-758 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary M Crow ◽  
Jorunn Møller
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
School Leaders ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Professional Identities ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
Constructivist Model

This introductory article attempts to set a conceptual stage for the special issue on identities of school leaders. We do this by beginning with a discussion of identity – its definition, philosophical roots, nature, and components. We then move to a discussion of identity development and the various dimensions that characterize this development. The article ends with a brief description of a critical constructivist model of identity. Our intention in the article is not to offer a theoretical framework that will be used by the article authors, but to offer a conceptual stage that provides the background for understanding identity.

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