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This paper wants to shed light on organizational factors as conditions for the impact of academic research in social sciences. Organizations play a role as enablers of social impact, providing conditions that improve the probability of impacting on society. We try to ascertain whether this role is supported and stimulated through institutional entrepreneurship, changing the institutions' organizational features, ideas, and beliefs to increase productive interactions and knowledge translation. Our work centres on exploring the actors' social position and their ability to introduce changes that are likely to permanently engage the organizations in the pursuit of social impact and possibly support it in the long run. The empirical basis consists of three case studies about research projects in the social sciences, which brought together academic researchers from different universities and stakeholders. The analysis demonstrates that understanding impact requires adopting a broader perspective, considering also the transformations emerging at the organizational level.

This paper introduces the challenges of studying parliamentary institutions in Southeast Asia. My focus of research is in three countries' institutions: national parliaments of Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. While in Southeast Asia, it is widely known that studying issues of politics and institutions face challenges – compared to studying culture, for example, this view is arguably no longer valid, however with certainqualification.The comparison of parliamentary tradition between three countries – based on observation of the plenary session - reveals that the effectiveness of parliamentary works is related to parliamentary procedure, and even to the culture of work in the countries. Parliamentary structure, procedure and their political culture matters. Therefore, acknowledging these factors will give rise to more research opportunities, if a researcher plans to study the political institution in other countries in Southeast Asia.

This paper examines some reported practices in the redistribution of earnings and other cash in Swaziland. It is based on transcriptions of 118 interviews in both urban and rural settings. (DÜI-Kst)

Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1 Salsa Dancing? In the Social Sciences? -- 2 What's It All About? -- 3 An Ode to Canonical Social Science -- 4 What Is This a Case of, Anyway? -- 5 Reviewing the Literature -- 6 On Sampling, Operationalization, and Generalization -- 7 Getting Down to the Nitty-Gritty -- 8 Field (and Other) Methods -- 9 Historical-Comparative Methods -- 10 Data Reduction and Analysis -- 11 Living Your Life as a Salsa- Dancing Social Scientist -- Appendix One. What to Do If You Don't Have a Case -- Appendix Two. Tools of the Trade -- Appendix Three. Special Resources for Specific Methods -- Appendix Four. Sample Search Log -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Author's Note -- Acknowledgments -- Index