Article ID: | iaor1998103 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 8 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 23 |
End Page Number: | 30 |
Publication Date: | Mar 1997 |
Journal: | British Journal of Management |
Authors: | Brown Reva Berman |
The paper attempts to debate and answer two questions: (1) Does multi-disciplinary research in management constitute a distinctive approach? To which the brief answer is ‘no’, because multi-disciplinary research is not one approach among all those others which can also be applied when researching management. Multi-disciplinary research into management is, as it were, the only game in town. (2) Can we rationally choose multi-disciplinary research into management as such at all? To which the response is also ‘no’, because management research and multi-disciplinarity are inseparable, by reason of the fact that management is, in its very essence, multi-disciplinary, rather than mono-disciplinary, in nature.