GAME-FRAMING COGNITIVE ASSESSMENTS TO IMPROVE APPLICANT PERCEPTIONS Andrew Burnett Collmus Old Dominion University, 2016 Director: Dr. Richard N. Landers Research has shown that although cognitive testing is key to quality hiring, applicants often react poorly to cognitive ability tests. Applicant reactions theory indicates that time-length judgments of a selection procedure can affect applican...

OBJECTIVES To examine what factors influence the agenda-setting process and level of political priority afforded to micronutrient deficiencies (MNDs). DESIGN Qualitative case study employing process tracing, informed by primary data collected from semistructured interviews with policymakers. SETTING Dakar, Senegal. RESULTS Several facilitating and impeding factors affecting the level of p...

Health impact assessment (HIA) is often used to determine ex ante the health impact of an environmental policy or an environmental intervention. Underpinning any HIA is the framing assumption, which defines the causal pathways mapping environmental exposures to health outcomes. The sensitivity of the HIA to the framing assumptions is often ignored. A novel method based on fuzzy cognitive map (F...

This editorial essay introduces a special issue that tackles the seemingly intractable challenge of re-conceptualizing power and performativity as continuously interweaving co-emergent dynamics in processes organizing. It is these processes, we argue, new futures may be visibly made through academic activism our scholarly communities. We position argument, six papers comprise this issue, relati...