This section will be updated on a regular basis with answers to frequently asked questions.
If you have a question that is not addressed in the call for book contributors, please send an email to online.panels.wiley@gmail.com
Does every chapter have to report empirical data analysis, or can a chapter be purely a review of pre-existing studies involving no new empirical data analysis?
Contributions reporting new empirical analyses of data are most suitable for the book. A chapter that only discusses past studies in the form of a systematic literature review or meta-analysis as we discuss below may be accepted.
Can a chapter report the findings of a systematic literature review?
Contributions reporting a systematic literature review are suitable for the book if they meet the following requirements:
The systematic review is original and no similar reviews have been published so far
The review is truly comprehensive – i.e., census-like – with no relevant paper or contributions left out. The authors should convincing provide evidence that they found all relevant findings in published articles and book chapter, as well as “grey literature” such as conference presentations
The authors are able to compare studies in a detailed and systematic manner and thus create new and original summary statistics and provide a state of the art discussion on the subject
Can a chapter report the findings of a formal meta-analysis?
To the extent the meta-analysis contains original data that have been assembled and analyzed about each of the studies evaluated in the meta-analysis, it would be consistent with the purpose of the book. The dataset and coding scheme (and the reliability of that coding) used for the meta-analysis will have to be made public upon publication of the book
Can you tell us more about the requirement of providing the dataset?
In the spirit of full disclosure and openness we invite private and public sector researchers to be bold and provide the dataset used to write their chapter. We believe it is very important that other/independent researchers be able to reproduce the analyses presented in the chapter using the same dataset used by the chapter author(s).
We will work with each contributor of an accepted chapter to make sure the dataset protects the privacy and confidentiality of the respondents so they cannot be identified.
We also will work with each contributor to properly assemble the dataset so proprietary company or clients data are masked but still usable for the data analysis.