Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: van Baalen, P.J.
Author-Name-Last: van Baalen
Author-Name-First: Peter
Author-Name: Karsten, L.
Author-Name-Last: Karsten
Author-Name-First: Luchien
Title: Is Management Interdisciplinary? The Evolution of Management as an Interdisciplinary Field of Research and Education in the Netherlands
Abstract: Management research and education are often characterized as being interdisciplinary. However, most discussions on what interdisciplinarity in management studies means have bogged down in ideological fixations. In this paper we alternatively take a historical perspective and analyze the evolution of the interdisciplinarity concept in management studies during the last decades in the Netherlands. We distinguish between two opposite versions of interdisciplinarity: a synoptic (conceptual) and an instrumental (pragmatic) one. Both versions resulted from different knowledge strategies (boundary-work) of competing and cooperating disciplines. We conclude that in the Netherlands instrumental versions of interdisciplinarity in management research and education prevailed.
Creation-Date: 2007-09-19
File-URL: https://repub.eur.nl/pub/10537/ERS-2007-047-LIS.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
Series: RePEc:ems:eureri
Number: ERS-2007-047-LIS
Classification-JEL: L15, M, O32
Keywords: Interdisciplinarity, disciplinarity, history of management education, management education, management science
Handle: RePEc:ems:eureri:10537