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The Tools of the Trade: Cultures, Devices, and Valuation Practices in Urban Design 交易工具：城市设计中的文化、设备和评估实践

IF 1.8 2区社会学

She Ji-The Journal of Design Economics and Innovation Pub Date : 2024-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.sheji.2024.10.004

Karl Palmås, Stefan Molnar

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Creating and Testing a Guideline for Governing Blockchain Ecosystems: A Study Informed by Design Science 创建和测试区块链生态系统管理指南：基于设计科学的研究

IF 1.8 2区社会学

She Ji-The Journal of Design Economics and Innovation Pub Date : 2024-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.sheji.2024.09.001

Birgitte van Haaren-van Duijn , Jaime Bonnin Roca , Phillip de Groot , A. Georges L. Romme , Mathieu Weggeman

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IF 1.8 2区社会学

She Ji-The Journal of Design Economics and Innovation Pub Date : 2024-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/S2405-8726(24)00091-1

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Reconceptualizing the Notion of Values in Design Talk 重新认识设计谈话中的价值概念

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She Ji-The Journal of Design Economics and Innovation Pub Date : 2024-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.sheji.2024.08.003

Liz Cooper

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A Review of The Quantified Scholar: How Research Evaluations Transformed the British Social Sciences 对《量化学者》的评论：研究评价如何改变英国社会科学

IF 1.8 2区社会学

She Ji-The Journal of Design Economics and Innovation Pub Date : 2024-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.sheji.2024.08.004

Ali O. Ilhan

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Limits to Modeling: Design Lessons from the World Problematique 建模的局限：世界难题的设计启示

IF 1.8 2区社会学

She Ji-The Journal of Design Economics and Innovation Pub Date : 2024-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.sheji.2024.10.003

Peter Hayward Jones , Alexander N. Christakis

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Value Dimensions in Creative Collaborations for Social Innovation 社会创新创意合作的价值维度

IF 1.8 2区社会学

She Ji-The Journal of Design Economics and Innovation Pub Date : 2024-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.sheji.2024.10.002

Jotte de Koning, Mieke van der Bijl-Brouwer

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Sustainability Accounting as a Wicked Problem 可持续性会计是一个棘手的问题

IF 1.8 2区社会学

She Ji-The Journal of Design Economics and Innovation Pub Date : 2024-06-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.sheji.2024.07.001

Hugo Letiche , Lucas Boucaud

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She Ji-The Journal of Design Economics and Innovation Pub Date : 2024-06-01 DOI: 10.1016/S2405-8726(24)00055-8

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Tame, Wicked, and Aporetic Problems in Design 设计中的驯服、邪恶和傲慢问题

IF 1.8 2区社会学

She Ji-The Journal of Design Economics and Innovation Pub Date : 2024-06-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.sheji.2024.07.003

Aleksandar Kostić

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