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Crowdsourcing and Unpaid Workers: When Worlds Collide
A while ago I wrote about crowdsourcing, which is becoming more and more interesting to me as an organizational theorist. Crowdsourcing bypasses traditional organizational structures and processes by...
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Population Ecology Theory in Real Life: How The Globe and Mail Misunderstood...
This week the Internet has been alive, at least in my part of the world, with the unfolding drama of Globe and Mail columnist Margaret Wente’s alleged plagiarism. Since one of Ms. Wente’s favorite...
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Making a Living as an Independent Musician: An Interview with Shane Wiebe
I often talk about the music industry when I teach population ecology theory, because the music industry is an almost perfect example of that theory in action. A large group of organizations – the...
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Some Thoughts on Sutton and Rao’s “Scaling Up Excellence”
I’ve written before about my general cynicism toward most business books. But one business book that I greatly admire – not only for its eye-catching title, but also for its sensible and forthright...
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What Skating Judging can Learn from Workplace Performance Evaluation
At every Winter Olympics, it seems, there are complaints about figure skating judging. Occasionally those complaints lead to something more – as in 2002, when a second gold medal was awarded in the...
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Population Ecology and “Handmade With Love in France”
One of my favourite events every year, the Vancouver International Film Festival, is in its final week. This year’s festival was a good one for me – I saw seven movies, and every one of them had...
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Protecting the Workplace “Star”
Last week, in light of the ongoing revelations in the story of former CBC host Jian Ghomeshi, the Financial Post ran a column entitled “Don’t be the CBC: How employers should handle allegations of...
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Newspapers, Endorsements, and Legitimacy
When a newspaper endorses a political party or a candidate during an election, the public assessment of the endorsement tends to turn on two factors: the reasoning leading to the endorsement, and the...
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Misreading the Environment, Part II
Nearly four years ago, I wrote this blog post about how the Globe and Mail newspaper responsed to allegations that columnist Margaret Wente had used uncredited sources in some of her writing. In that...
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Reading one book right after another book can make you think differently about both books. Caroline Criado Perez’ Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men and Chris Clearfield and András...
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