scholarly journals The Prospects for Collaborative Research in Business History

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 824-852
Author(s):  
EDWARD J. BALLEISEN
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Data Science ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Business History ◽  
Detailed Knowledge ◽  
Historical Inquiry ◽  
Research Teams ◽  
Use Of Data ◽  
Steady Growth ◽  
Duke University

After reflecting on the thematic evolution of business history as a field over the past 50 years, this revised presidential address invites readers to consider the potential payoffs of expanding the contexts in which business historians work together on research projects, as well as with colleagues from cognate fields and with students. In addition to charting the steady growth in collaborative research among business historians since 2000, the essay also identifies areas that especially lend themselves to this mode of historical inquiry, including comparative or transnational analysis that requires detailed knowledge of multiple societies, the development of oral history projects, and the use of data science techniques. It concludes by exploring the advantages of incorporating interdisciplinary research teams into curricular structures, using the example of the Bass Connections program at Duke University.

scholarly journals Eight practices for data management to enable team data science

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Andrew McDavid ◽  
Anthony M. Corbett ◽  
Jennifer L. Dutra ◽  
Andrew G. Straw ◽  
David J. Topham ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Data Management ◽  
Data Science ◽  
Interdisciplinary Collaboration ◽  
Research Teams ◽  
Organization And Management ◽  
Use Of Data ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
The University ◽  
Clinical And Translational Research

Abstract Introduction: In clinical and translational research, data science is often and fortuitously integrated with data collection. This contrasts to the typical position of data scientists in other settings, where they are isolated from data collectors. Because of this, effective use of data science techniques to resolve translational questions requires innovation in the organization and management of these data. Methods: We propose an operational framework that respects this important difference in how research teams are organized. To maximize the accuracy and speed of the clinical and translational data science enterprise under this framework, we define a set of eight best practices for data management. Results: In our own work at the University of Rochester, we have strived to utilize these practices in a customized version of the open source LabKey platform for integrated data management and collaboration. We have applied this platform to cohorts that longitudinally track multidomain data from over 3000 subjects. Conclusions: We argue that this has made analytical datasets more readily available and lowered the bar to interdisciplinary collaboration, enabling a team-based data science that is unique to the clinical and translational setting.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH, DELIBERATION, AND INNOVATION

Episteme ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 291-303 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Brad Wray
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Team Work ◽  
Research Teams ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
Wrong Direction ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Alternative Solutions

AbstractI evaluate the extent to which we could learn something about how we should be conducting collaborative research in science from the research on groupthink. I argue that Solomon has set us in the wrong direction, failing to recognize that the consensus in scientific specialties is not the result of deliberation. But the attention to the structure of problem-solving that has emerged in the groupthink research conducted by psychologists can help us see when deliberation could lead to problems for a research team. I argue that whenever we need to generate alternative solutions or proposals, groupthink is a genuine threat, and research teams would be wise to allow individuals opportunities to work alone. But the benefits of team work emerge when scientists seek to evaluate the various proposals generated, and determine a course of action. Then the group is less prone is groupthink, and the interaction of group members can be an epistemic asset.

Looking Toward the Future: Expanding Connections for Business Historians

2008 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 575-590 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela Walker Laird
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Address ◽  
Business History ◽  
The Future

Last year, Will Hausman gave us a splendid overview of business history's development for his presidential address. Despite his modesty, he treated us to a review of the parallels between his career and the field's progress, which owes much to his dedication to the Business History Conference (BHC) and its various constituencies. What we have within the BHC now, thanks to Will and many others, are multiple opportunities for exciting interactions based on ideas. As we share, exchange, and rearrange our ideas, they grow, as do our pleasure in and appreciation for them. The BHC offers us a wonderful arena for advancing the life of our minds—while advancing our ideas.

scholarly journals Mathematical Issues in Data Science and Applications for Health care

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sitti Zuhaerah Thalhah ◽  
Mohammad Tohir ◽  
Phong Thanh Nguyen ◽  
K. Shankar ◽  
Robbi Rahim
Keyword(s):  
Data Analytics ◽  
Data Science ◽  
Predictive Analytics ◽  
Big Data Analytics ◽  
Decision Models ◽  
Computational Techniques ◽  
Healthcare Applications ◽  
Use Of Data ◽  
Source Data ◽  
Military Applications

For development in military applications, industrial and government the predictive analytics and decision models have long been cornerstones. In modern healthcare system technologies and big data analytics and modeling of multi-source data system play an increasingly important role. Into mathematical models in these domains various problems arising that can be formulated, by using computational techniques, sophisticated optimization and decision analysis it can be analyzed. This paper studies the use of data science in healthcare applications and the mathematical issues in data science.

scholarly journals An endnote: Advice and recommendations from University of Waikato education professionals, for teachers as researchers

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-70
Author(s):  
Kerry Earl Rinehart ◽  
Judith Mills
Keyword(s):  
Educational Research ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Research Teams ◽  
Education Professionals ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Journal Editors ◽  
The University ◽  
Relational Contexts

We conclude this issue with some advice for teachers as researchers from members of the Division of Education staff at the University of Waikato along with some recommendations for helpful reference books. The emphasis of this article, in the words of four of the staff, is one of the support available to assist education researchers. Educational research is not conducted in solitary but by researchers within a variety of relational contexts. Therefore, University teachers and class peers, supervisors, members of collaborative research teams and journal editors can all provide support in a teacher- researcher’s research journey.

scholarly journals Adjunct Faculty Perceptions of Participation in Online Collaborative Research Teams

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Hartman ◽  
Danielle Kearns-Sixsmith ◽  
Patricia Akojie ◽  
Christa Banton
Keyword(s):  
Adjunct Faculty ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Professional Growth ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Faculty Perceptions ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Research Teams ◽  
Organizational Skills ◽  
Part Time Faculty ◽  
Inquiry Approach

Career professionals who serve as adjunct faculty at the university level are expected to engage in continual research and publishing to maintain their status as adjunct (part-time) faculty, to be considered for potential advancement, and to qualify for additional compensation.  One way of meeting this objective is to participate in online collaborative research projects benefiting from a set of multiple lenses, multiple insights, and a multitude of considerations in regard to design, methodology, data interpretations, and broader reaching implications.  A narrative inquiry approach was applied to gain an in-depth understanding of the experiences of adjunct faculty working in online collaborative research teams. Data was gathered through phone interviews where adjunct faculty shared their personal experiences and reflections about working as collaborative researchers in an online environment. Using an inductive process, themes were drawn from the responses of the participants to address the research question. The dominant themes found were organizational skills, interpersonal skills, and personal growth and development. The results of the study led to recommendations for supporting adjunct faculty in online collaborative research for building a sense of scholarly community and expanding opportunities for personal professional growth.

scholarly journals From Finance Capitalism to Financialization: A Cultural and Narrative Perspective on 150 Years of Financial History

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 605-642 ◽  
Author(s):  
Per H. Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Address ◽  
Rent Seeking ◽  
Business History ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Financial History ◽  
Social Instability ◽  
Narrative Perspective ◽  
Finance Capitalism ◽  
Over Time

In this article I interpret 150 years of financial history with a focus on shifts in the role of finance in society. I argue that over time the role of finance has shifted twice from that of servant to that of master of society, and that this process has been driven by sense making through narratives that legitimized and shaped these changes. When finance became a master rent seeking, cultural capture and out-of-control financial innovation resulted in financial and social instability. Finance as a master was the characteristic of finance capitalism from around 1900–1931 and of financialization from around 1980 to today. Finance capitalism and financialization were enabled by a dominant narrative that legitimized the power of finance. The shifts in the role of finance happened when crises undermined the meaning of the existing narrative and created for a new narrative able to make sense of the crisis and point society in a new direction. This sense-making process stabilized when a new narrative was established that could explain the crisis and legitimize and shape a new role for finance. The article is based on my presidential address presented at the Business History Conference’s annual meeting in March 2014 in Frankfurt.

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