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Step-by-step over the past 50 years the production of social science research, including policy research, has shifted from a solitary enterprise to a team effort. The...
Raymond Struyk, author of Improving Think Tank Management, writes about the key empirical facts on the shift from solo-authored papers to team production, introducing couple of options for...
An important line of analytic development has been underway for a decade or more, with a new group of actors emerging. The primary differentiating characteristic of this emerging group is...
Two recent developments may be having significant effects on the way think tanks are structuring their staff assessments. First, is the simplification of elaborate...
Raymond Struyk, author of Improving Think Tank Management, writes about how two recent developments may be having significant effects on the way think tanks are structuring their staff...
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, various observers of the development of business staff practices are considering the possible lasting effects of the massive shift in the...
This note introduces three new reports from the China Think Tank Index (CTTI) programme conceived and managed by the China Think Tank Research and Evaluation Centre...
In 1990, Michael Fix and I co-edited a book of articles about the use of a technique called ‘auditing’ to measure discrimination against ethnic minority groups when...
There is an ongoing, comparatively quiet evolution in the business world, especially among tech firms, large consultancies and major international law firms, to...
Raymond Struyk, author of Improving Think Tank Management, writes about the evolution in staff assessments for think tanks. There is an ongoing, comparatively quiet evolution in the...
Think tanks exist to improve the quality of decisions made by governments at all levels. Most are rightly concerned about their image as an organization that...
Raymond Struyk, author of Improving Think Tank Management, writes about the importance of think tanks' post-project engagement to measure their impact and influence. To be effective a...