Transdisciplinarity in Corporate Sustainability. Mapping the Field

Schaltegger S, Beckmann M, Hansen EG (2013)


Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2013

Journal

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.

Book Volume: 22

Pages Range: 219-229

Journal Issue: 4

DOI: 10.1002/bse.1772

Abstract

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 academia-practice 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. © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.

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APA:

Schaltegger, S., Beckmann, M., & Hansen, E.G. (2013). Transdisciplinarity in Corporate Sustainability. Mapping the Field. Business Strategy and the Environment, 22(4), 219-229. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bse.1772

MLA:

Schaltegger, Stefan, Markus Beckmann, and Erik G. Hansen. "Transdisciplinarity in Corporate Sustainability. Mapping the Field." Business Strategy and the Environment 22.4 (2013): 219-229.

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