Papers

The ability of personality traits to predict important life outcomes has traditionally been questioned because of the putative small effects of personality. In ...

A small but growing share of sociological research recognizes the importance of perceptions of the future for explaining social outcomes. This article…

Uncertain Futures considers how economic actors visualize the future and decide how to act in conditions of radical uncertainty. It starts from the premise that dynamic capitalist economies are characterized by relentless innovation and novelty and hence exhibit an indeterminacy that cannot be reduced to measurable risk. The organizing question then becomes how economic actors form expectations and make decisions despite the uncertainty they face. This edited volume lays the foundations for a new model of economic reasoning by showing how, in conditions of uncertainty, economic actors combine calculation with imaginaries and narratives to form fictional expectations that coordinate action and provide the confidence to act. It draws on groundbreaking research in economic sociology, economics, anthropology, and psychology to present theoretically grounded empirical case studies. These demonstrate how grand narratives, central bank forward guidance, economic forecasts, finance models, business plans, visions of technological futures, and new era stories influence behaviour and become instruments of power in markets and societies. The market impact of shared calculative devices, social narratives, and contingent imaginaries underlines the rationale for a new form of narrative economics.

This article critically engages with Russell Belk’s ‘extended self’ theory and Susan Fournier’s ‘human relationship model’. When a human development model is ap...

Considering food consumption as an important daily practice, this article explores how and why Chinese young people consume takeaway food – a typical type of co...

Nike, a US-headquartered transnational corporation lauded for its putatively empowering women-centered advertisements, frequently releases nationally/regionally...

(2022). Dictators, personalized security forces, and coups. International Interactions. Ahead of Print.

Citizen engagement is heralded as essential for food democracy and equality, yet the implementation of inclusive citizen engagement mechanisms in urba…

The post-truth era has taken many by surprise. Here, we use massive language analysis to demonstrate that the rise of fact-free argumentation may perhaps be understood as part of a deeper change. After the year 1850, the use of sentiment-laden words in Google Books declined systematically, while the use of words associated with fact-based argumentation rose steadily. This pattern reversed in the 1980s, and this change accelerated around 2007, when across languages, the frequency of fact-related words dropped while emotion-laden language surged, a trend paralleled by a shift from collectivistic to individualistic language.

Nature - Insights into the interactions between pro- and anti-vaccination clusters on Facebook can enable policies and approaches that attempt to interrupt the shift to anti-vaccination views and...

(2022). Addressing the paradox of tolerance in liberal democracies: why do France and Germany respond differently to right-wing radicalism?. Journal of Contemporary European Studies. Ahead of Print.

(2021). ‘Smart’ in another way: the potential of the Fab City approach to reconfigure urban dynamics. Urban Research & Practice. Ahead of Print.

Nature - Identifying and quantifying planetary boundaries that must not be transgressed could help prevent human activities from causing unacceptable environmental change, argue Johan...

Download scientific diagram | The nine identified planetary boundaries. The green zone is the safe-operating space (below the boundary), yellow represents the zone of uncertainty (increasing risk), and red is the high-risk zone. In these potentially dangerous zones of increasing risk, there are likely continental and global tipping points for some of the boundaries, although not for all them. The planetary boundary itself lies at the inner heavy circle. A proposed boundary does not represent a tipping point or a threshold but is placed upstream of it, that is, well before the risk of crossing a critical threshold. The intent of this buffer between the boundary and a potential threshold in the dangerous zone is to allow society time to react to early warning signs of approaching abrupt or risky change. Processes for which global-level boundaries are not quantified are represented by grey wedges (adapted from Steffen et al. 2015). Reprinted with permission from publication: Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere | The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed an interconnected and tightly coupled globalized world in rapid change. This article sets the scientific stage for understanding and responding to such change for global sustainability and resilient societies. We provide a systemic overview... | Anthropocene, Resilience and Global Sustainability | ResearchGate, the professional network for scientists.

Nature Human Behaviour - Across 26 countries, Imhoff et al. find that conspiracy mentality is more prevalent at both ends of the political spectrum than the centre. This U-shaped pattern is...

Dating apps promise a ‘digital fix’ to the ‘messy’ matter of love by means of datafication and algorithmic matching, realising a platformisation of romance comm...

This book explores how imperialism has been evolving in the neoliberal era, with the aim of providing a systematic and integrative understanding of the inner dynamics and vulnerabilities of the contemporary imperialist system. Asking how it has been possible to sustain an imperialist system that fails to address the problems of unemployment, declining standards of living and globalizing conflicts, the author draws upon theoretical and empirical contributions from the current literature to furthe

(2021). The global south, degrowth and The Simpler Way movement: the need for structural solutions at the global level. Globalizations. Ahead of Print.

The twenty-first century global economy is largely driven by Big Tech and, more broadly, digital capitalism. This is a global phenomenon, with US power at the c...

This thesis presents a new model for developing and implementing strategy in open networks. Most of the strategy literature, indeed virtually all of it, addresses the challenge of one organization attempting to survive and thrive in the world. Over the last 30 years, since the 1990s, strategic management has had to make two big adjustments. First, the environments in which we operate have become far more turbulent. Second, our organizations have become more porous, more networked, and less hierarchical. The enormous impact of the Internet has accelerated both trends.

(2021). Colonial global economy: towards a theoretical reorientation of political economy. Review of International Political Economy: Vol. 28, Special Issue on 'Blind Spots in IPE' - Guest Editors: Genevieve LeBaron, Daniel Mügge, Jacqueline Best and Colin Hay, pp. 307-322.

Over the past half century, how we conceive of design research has changed significantly, as indeed have the boundaries of influence of the design pro…

Despite claims that design has moved beyond making artifacts and products, prevailing theories of design thinking in organizations remain entrenched i…

Paternalism is an instance of someone making a decision on behalf of someone else. A professional designer can exhibit paternalism through conceptuali…

(2019). Criminal use of cryptocurrencies: a great new threat or is cash still king? Journal of Cyber Policy: Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 326-345.