Death Inc. - on researching the death care industry
OK, so I missed Hallowe'en for this one, but I couldn't resist a post on the business of death care...
OK, so I missed Hallowe'en for this one, but I couldn't resist a post on the business of death care...
Found a real gem in our ABACUS database this morning: Way back in 2009 Statistics Canada conducted the Survey of Innovation and Business Strategy -- and the full results (raw data, codebooks, etc.) are now available to SFU researchers.
Businesspeople these days are expected to be both specialists and generalists - to know an area such as marketing in depth, yet also be familiar with the practical implications of issues in other areas like investing or organizational culture. As useful as your courses may be for gaining such breadth of knowledge, sometimes scanning a basic handbook is also necessary.
SFU researchers now have access to reports on 270 different brands, each of which covers "how a product originated and was first marketed, how it developed commercially and how it fares today compared with its competitors and its own past history."
Sustainability is an underlying theme in many areas of research these days -- CSR, corporate governance, ethics, environmental policy and management, and beyond -- a theme that the SFU Library aims to support with resources such as the Sustainable Organization Library... <more>
The SFU Library Research Commons and the SFU Graduate Student Society invite you to join us for Lightning Talks: Globalization + Health, in the GSS Lounge (MBC 2212), October 22nd, 2pm-4pm. This event features the work of 5 graduate students on the theme of Globalization and Health. After lightning fast presentations by these speakers, we'll have a panel discussion followed by conversation and refreshments. This is a chance to make connections across disciplines and to discuss new research on a common theme. Presenters:
In celebration of Open Access week, the SFU Library is very pleased to host Jared Lyle from the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) who will discuss the challenges, opportunities, and benefits of sharing, curating and preserving data from the ICPSR perspective.
Did you know that in 2012, "full-time employees in the public sector took 12.4 days off for sickness and personal or family responsibilities, compared with 8.3 days in the private sector—a difference of 4.1 days"?*
This message is a reminder of copyright workshops for faculty that are being offered at all SFU campuses in the next few weeks.
We posted just a couple days ago about our new module in Passport GMID -- Passport Industrial - Canada -- and have been discussing it with many of our researchers ever since.
Some of the questions so far...
How is this module different from the other content in Passport GMID?