Interdisciplinarity with Accountability: Advancing Management Theory by Demarginalizing the Knowledge Pipeline
Abstract
Interdisciplinary research is increasingly positioned as a route to relevance and theoretical renewal in management scholarship, especially as grand challenges demand integration across domains, methods, and epistemic communities. Yet “interdisciplinarity” often becomes a label rather than a disciplined practice: integration can be superficial, while the knowledge and people most affected by the phenomena under study remain marginal to theory building. Building on recent editorial arguments about the promises and pitfalls of interdisciplinary theory development and on calls to demarginalize the production pipeline that defines what counts as legitimate knowledge, this editorial advances a program for accountable interdisciplinarity in management research.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Management and Organizational Studies
Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration
Innovation
Sustainability
Human-Machine Systems
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Management Research Quarterly
- Publisher
- Brno International Business School
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 1–7
- Publication date
- 26 January 2026