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New, Journal on Policy and Complex Systems

www.ipsonet.org/publications/open-access/policy-and-complex-systems

The PSO is pleased to announce a new journal to be published twice a year, starting October 1, 2013. The peer-reviewed journal provides a platform whereby researchers, policy makers, experts in relevant disciplines, and modelers can join together to offer scientifically valid and societally appropriate solutions to challenging problems facing the world today, from the perspective of systems and complexity science.
 
Aims and Scope
• Promote professional and public understanding of the relationship between policy studies and complex  systems thinking, evolving greater understanding and engagement.
• Establish a venue for reporting results of exploring, developing, and evaluating policies using cutting edge computational approaches to policy research, including complexity theory, agent-based modeling/simulation, chaos theory, fractals, dynamical systems, and the science of networks.
• Establish a repository of data and systems developed through research efforts reported in the journal.
• Bring together a community of multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary scholars to address common societal concerns; including social scientists, natural scientists, computational scientists, humanists, policy analysts, public administrators, and policy makers.
 
Introductory Issue Topics & Call for Submissions
• Overview of Public Policy Methodological Approaches and Best Practices
• Overview of Complexity and Systems Methodological Approaches and Best Practices
• Public Policy & Complexity Theory/Systems Theory
• Data Acquisition for Systems-based Policy Research
• The Element of Time in Complex Systems Simulations
• Policy Analysys and Evaluation Within Complex Systems Framework
• Application of Complex Systems Policy Research

"Publish or Perish" - Anne-Wil Harzing + Scirus - scientific research tool

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Publish or Perish is designed to empower individual academics to present their case for research impact to its best advantage. We would be concerned if it would be used for academic staff evaluation purposes in a mechanistic way...

...it uses Google Scholar to obtain the raw citations...

Times Higher Education (June 2011) where LSE Professor Patrick Dunleavy favours it over peer review for the British Research Assessment.

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The Transparency Paradox, A Role for Privacy in Organizational Learning and Operational Control - Administrative Science Quarterly

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June 21, 2012, Administrative Science Quarterly

Using data from embedded participant-observers and a field experiment at the second largest mobile phone factory in the world, located in China, I theorize and test the implications of transparent organizational design on workers’ productivity and organizational performance. Drawing from theory and research on learning and control, I introduce the notion of a transparency paradox, whereby maintaining observability of workers may counterintuitively reduce their performance by inducing those being observed to conceal their activities through codes and other costly means; conversely, creating zones of privacy may, under certain conditions, increase performance. Empirical evidence from the field shows that even a modest increase in group-level privacy sustainably and significantly improves line performance, while qualitative evidence suggests that privacy is important in supporting productive deviance, localized experimentation, distraction avoidance, and continuous improvement. I discuss implications of these results for theory on learning and control and suggest directions for future research.

Administrative Science Quarterly reviewer praises book "Institutions and Entrepreneurship" as “an excellent overview” in “this new area of scholarship”

8/7/2012 Johson Cornell University, "Wes Sine’s new book explores entrepreneurship from an institutional perspective"

Administrative Science Quarterly reviewer praises Institutions and Entrepreneurship as “an excellent overview” in “this new area of scholarship”

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Wesley Sine, associate professor of management and organizations and faculty director, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute, at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, has co-edited an important volume in Emerald Books’ ongoing Research in the Sociology of Work series. The book, Institutions and Entrepreneurship, was reviewed by Klaus Weber, professor of management and organizations at Kellogg School of Management, in the June 2012 issue of Administrative Science Quarterly, Johnson’s highly-respected academic journal.  

Weber’s review called attention to the pioneering nature of Sine and his co-author’s diverse, balanced, and well-crafted collection of work on the intersection of institutions and entrepreneurship — two phenomena that are typically considered polar opposites. While institutions are thought to be rigid and formal, entrepreneurship represents an unconstrained and creative impulse. Sine has argued that institutions and entrepreneurship are more interrelated — both in theory and practice — than is commonly assumed. As he pointed out in Institutions and Entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial activities can be glimpsed in institutional processes, whereas institutions lay the groundwork for different kinds of entrepreneurship.

Sine’s book and its positive review in Administrative Science Quarterly reflect how scholars affiliated with Johnson and the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute continue to be on the cutting edge of theory and research.     

Click here to read the review.