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Habitat and Habitus: Boxed-in versus Box-Breaking Research

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

This paper argues that scholarly work is increasingly situated in narrowly circumscribed areas of study, which are encouraging specialization, incremental adding-to-the-literature contributions and a blinkered mindset. Researchers invest considerable time and energy in these specialized areas in order to maximize their productivity and career prospects. We refer to this way of doing research and structuring careers as boxed-in research. While such research is normally portrayed as a template for good scholarship, it gives rise to significant problems in management and organization studies, as it tends to generate a shortage of novel and influential ideas. We propose box-breaking research as a strategy for how researchers and institutions can move away from the prevalence of boxed-in research and, thus, be able to generate more imaginative and influential research results. We suggest three versions: box changing, box jumping and, more ambitiously, box transcendence.

Publiceringsår

2014

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

967-987

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Organization Studies

Volym

35

Issue

7

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

SAGE Publications

Ämne

  • Business Administration

Nyckelord

  • box research
  • box-breaking research specialization
  • boxed-in
  • knowledge
  • production
  • social organization of science
  • theory development

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1741-3044