Quantitative research requires considerable insights into theory, methods and reality. This chapter illustrates how a doctoral project using quantitative methods unfolds, from designing research taking into account complex relationships and selecting data collection techniques to optimising...

The renewed embrace of a more analytical version of research through personal narratives, memoirs, diaries, journals, meditations subjective personal introspections and particularly autoethnographies is attributed to the growing academic appreciation of qualitative research overall, and of...

Since 2016, a growing number of governments and public entities have been crafting national AI development plans. This wave of recent horizontal policies that contrasts with the former vertical policies is accounted for, stressing a shift toward new forms of industrial policies that introduces a...

Crowdfunding and other forms of relatively direct financial interaction between cultural producers and the public have been hailed as corrective mechanisms for oligarchic culture industries. The chapter considers research that examined how social capital in the form of connections with other...

The interface between universities and business is hugely diverse with a wide range of connections between academic and business interests and extensive collaborations in research, innovation, and teaching. In relation to university curriculum, the touch points between business and professions...

Analyses of the experience of work in this section typically identify the characteristics of “good work” as a template to address the often negative experiences of health care workers. These negative experiences have to be nuanced to reflect the negative extrinsic elements set against the...

This chapter presents an overview of all other chapters in the Handbook of Creativity Assessment. It identifies common concerns and issues. It discusses the alignment of creativity assessment with psychometrics more broadly than the individual chapters and explores the trade-off between internal...

Many scholars and practitioners in the fields of business and management have recently published theoretical and empirical studies on the subject of business culture and its impact on its growth and effectiveness; yet, there has been a dearth of research on the topic of how organizational...

Dams represent the World Bank’s iconic infrastructure project, symbolizing its early focus on large, top-down transformation and its subsequent shift towards infrastructure that is supposedly environmentally sustainable and socially responsible. However, scholarship remains divided on the...

In this chapter, we explore dynamic choice problems - where choices made in the present are both dependent on those in the past and will also affect those in the future. We start by considering the dynamic choice problem from two different perspectives: that of the decision maker and that of the...