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You Can't Expect Rationality from Pregnant Men: Reflections on Multi‐disciplinarity in Management Research
Author(s) -
Brown Reva Berman
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
british journal of management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.407
H-Index - 108
eISSN - 1467-8551
pISSN - 1045-3172
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8551.00036
Subject(s) - discipline , rationality , sociology , epistemology , engineering ethics , social science , engineering , philosophy
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.