Disruptive knowledge in international business research: A pipe dream or attainable target?

Rosalie L. Tung*, Gary Knight, Pervez Ghauri, Shameen Prashantham, Tony Fang

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1589-1598
Number of pages10
JournalJournal of International Business Studies
Volume54
Issue number9
Early online date21 Oct 2023
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2023

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A cursory review of the grand challenges and wicked problems that confront society reveals that no single discipline can capture the true complexity of the issues that need to be addressed and the ways for resolving them. Noted climatologist and Executive Director of the International Council for Science (ICSU), Deliang Chen, for example, noted that “(t)he environmental problems facing today’s society cannot be overcome by a single nation or a single scientific discipline” and called for a transdisciplinary approach. The call for a transdisciplinary approach has been echoed in a growing number of major research-granting agencies, such as the National Institute of Health’s (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences Collaborative Program Grant for Multidisciplinary Teams, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and the Collaborative Research Funds by the Hong Kong University Grants Committee, to name a few.

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Business and International Management
  • General Business,Management and Accounting
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Strategy and Management
  • Management of Technology and Innovation

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