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Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration: Characteristics - Impeding and Enabling Factors - Implications
Series
Schriften der Assistierenden der Universität St. Gallen (HSG)
ISBN
978-3-7272-2284-9
Type
book section
Date Issued
2010
Author(s)
Editor(s)
Haunreiter, Diego
Abstract
Research is becoming increasingly interdisciplinary due to the inherent complexity of the phenomena under study. Interdisciplinarity is "en vogue" - associated with creative, progressive scientific research likely to lead to applicable results. Complex problems cross the boundaries of traditional disciplines and thus, require individuals and groups to engage in interdisciplinary inquiry and collaboration to generate knowledge that is more than the sum of its parts. And while European scholars are working on mapping the contours of "the disciplines" in the course of the Bologna process to further brachiate the tree of knowledge, KLEIN states in her recent landmark book "Creating Interdisciplinary Campus Cultures" that the concept of "the disciplines" has increasingly taken on the stance of an "inconvenient fiction." After introducing the topic and its relevance, the chapter presents a definition of interdisciplinary research as well as selected characteristics of interdisciplinary research collaboration (section II). After that, impeding (obstacles) as well as on enabling factors regarding interdisciplinary research collaboration will be submitted (section III) and some implications will be outlined (section IV). Finally, ideas for (future) research on interdisciplinary research collaboration will be sketched out (section V).
Language
English
Keywords
Interdisciplinarity
interdisciplinary research collaboration
interdisciplinary research
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
No
Book title
Kommunikation in Wirtschaft, Recht und Gesellschaft
Publisher
Stämpfli
Publisher place
Bern
Number
Bd. 5
Start page
141
End page
157
Pages
17
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Contact Email Address
sabine.hoidn@unisg.ch
Eprints ID
60493