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BUSINESS STRATEGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Volume 22, Issue 4, Pages 219-229Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/bse.1772
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transdisciplinarity; sustainability sciences; corporate sustainability; academicpractitioner gap; rigour and relevance; research method
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Sustainability challenges are complex. So are the challenges that business firms encounter in their corresponding quest for corporate sustainability. Given this complexity, there is a need for new approaches to corporate sustainability management research. We discuss transdisciplinarity as such a novel approach in three steps. After showing that specialization is the primary conventional response to increasing complexity, we first briefly compare how inter-, multi- and transdisciplinarity reintegrate decentralized, specialized knowledge. The second step describes how the emerging sustainability science has recently advanced the transdisciplinary methodology. Based on the two dimensions of interdisciplinarity and academiapractice collaboration, we third generate a framework for mapping existing research approaches in terms of their transdisciplinary qualities. We use this framework to identify room for novel methodologies in sustainability management research. Copyright (c) 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.
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