Academic Research is Better

Thirty Years of IS Research: Core Artifacts and Academic Identity

Providing a setup and opportunities for better training of postdoctoral research fellows in an academic environment.

Thousands of young researchers come from different parts of the world every year to take up postdoctoral (postdoc) research fellowship positions in the developed countries. In the US alone, there were 48,601 postdocs in the year 2005 working in different labs in the fields of science, health and engineering. Many pursue this option for lack of other alternatives. Expectedly, these individuals f...

reconsidering academic research ethics

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Oxygen – less is better , more is better ? ?

Altitude training has been employed as a tool for enhancing performance by athletes since the 1964 Mexico Olympics. The cost and impracticality of going to altitude regularly has led to the development of altitude simulation at sea level by creating low oxygen (‘hypoxia’) environments. ‘Altitude’ or ‘hypoxic’ training facilities are now springing up all around the country. The evidence supporti...

Managing academic research.

Over the past few decades, there have been some profound changes made to the way that academic research is managed. i recall a former, rather auto­ cratic, professor’s approach to the subject; “i take the responsibility, i make the decisions.” under his directorship, his department became world renowned, demon strating that this approach is not neces sarily wrong, but it represents an extreme i...