This study examines the future role of artificial intelligence (AI) in transforming research processes within the social sciences, focusing on how AI may redefine researchers' responsibilities and potentially replace human participants in certain types of studies. Employing the Delphi method,...

During the past quarter of a century the academic business and management literature has placed an increased premium on incorporating theory within contributions to it. Coincidentally this is the same time period during which the study of the business model domain has occurred. For the most...

Turnover still occurs in various organizations, including both profit and non-profit. Accordingly, a study of turnover intention (TI) to detect and anticipate its prevalence among employees is urgently needed. This study explored the impact of psychological capital (PsyCap) and emotional...

This book is a comprehensive compilation of academic papers and presentations delivered at the conference. It brings together research from various disciplines within the humanities and social sciences, such as cultural studies, sociology, psychology, education, literature, and history. It...

In February 2025, the European Commission published a communication, under the title 'The road to the next MFF', in which it announced plans for 'a simpler, more focused and more impactful budget' - and through which it launched preparations for the EU's next seven-year budget, or multiannual...

Social sciences and humanities (SSH) are an important research and innovation (R&I) area among the various disciplines. SSH research represents an added value to other types of R&I activities when they can be integrated, providing a higher impact to R&I results. This is called SSH integration,...

This study evaluates the effectiveness of varying levels of human and artificial intelligence (AI) integration in reproducibility assessments. We computationally reproduced quantitative results from published articles in the social sciences with 288 researchers, randomly assigned to 103 teams...

Over the past 25 years, performativity has emerged as a salient focus in social sciences, yet its meta-theoretical analysis remains limited. What is performativity? How is it located empirically and treated theoretically across disciplines? Analyzing 6,741 published articles and books deploying...

Why have so many approaches to farming and food policy failed in Sub-Saharan Africa? Because, argues William Moseley in this compelling analysis, of the shortcomings of a prevailing western, colonial agricultural science that is infused with power and politics. To tackle food security...

During the past quarter of a century the academic business and management literature has placed an increased premium on incorporating theory within contributions to it. Coincidentally this is the same time period during which the study of the business model domain has occurred. For the most...

On this subject, I only knew the excellent little book by the late Schurtz"— Marcel Mauss, 1914, "Les origines de la notion de monnaie".Heinrich Schurtz's 1898 book has been a touchstone for economic historians, anthropologists, and philosophers interested in the nature and origins of money in...

We computationally reproduce the central findings in Mehmood (2022), which studied the effect of a 2010 reform in Pakistan replacing the presidential appointment of high-court judges with peer appointments. Mehmood leveraged judicial records interpreted and coded by lawyers in Pakistan at the...

Purpose The paper provides a detailed historical account of Douglass C. North's early intellectual contributions and analytical developments in pursuing a Grand Theory for why some countries are rich and others poor. Design/methodology/approach The author approaches the discussion using a...

This article presents Professor Joanicjusz Nazarko's outstanding achievements in research, scientific cooperation, teaching and organizational work, in celebration of the 45th jubilee of his scientific work. Over the years, Professor Nazarko has contributed significantly to the development of...

This paper critically examines the shortcomings of post-conflict reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2021, arguing that an overemphasis on measurable results and causal inference led to overly narrow, community-driven development interventions that failed to appreciate the complex...

War es in den Anfängen der Sozialwissenschaften selbstverständlich, dass ihr Gegenstand als „Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft“ beschrieben werden muss, ist Ökonomie in der weiteren Entwicklung der Sozialwissenschaften oft vernachlässigt worden. Das war zur Vermeidung von Reduktionismus und...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Society -- Chapter 3. Value Theory -- Chapter 4. Exchange, Money, Society -- Chapter 5. Money -- Chapter 6. Money and "Socialism" -- Chapter 7. Summary: Or, What's New Here?.

Introduction -- The Basic Assumptions of Traditional Economics -- An Initial Interim Conclusion -- A Discourse Analytical Examination of Some Fundamental Assumptions and Concepts in Economics -- A Second Interim Conclusion -- Summary and Outlook -- Conclusion and Outlook.

General Introduction -- PART I – Classic Evoluntionism -- Chapter 1 – Justice and Law for the Eighteen-Century Scottish Enlightenment -- Chapter 2 – Law for Friedrich A. Hayek -- Chapter 3 – Main Contributions of Classic Evolutionism to the Study of Law -- PART II –New Evolutionary...

Rational choice theories belong to the most important building blocks of 20th century economics. Their usefulness to model human behaviour has been extensively debated in modern social science and beyond. While some have argued that rational choice theories should be applied to a broad range of...

Turnover still occurs in various organizations, including both profit and non-profit. Accordingly, a study of turnover intention (TI) to detect and anticipate its prevalence among employees is urgently needed. This study explored the impact of psychological capital (PsyCap) and emotional...

The social and economic sciences are grounded on the basic assumption that social life, decision-making behavior, and consciousness are classical physical and therefore material phenomena. Quantum social science, a new research area, which refers to the knowledge and interpretations of quantum...