TY - JOUR

T1 - Constellations of Transdisciplinary Practices: A Map and Research Agenda for the Responsible Management Learning Field

AU - Laasch, Oliver

AU - Moosmayer, Dirk

AU - Antonacopoulou, Elena

AU - Schaltegger, Stefan

PY - 2020/4/1

Y1 - 2020/4/1

N2 - The emerging field of responsible management learning is characterized by an urgent need for transdisciplinary practices. We conceptualize constellations of transdisciplinary practices by building up on a social practice perspective. From this perspective, knowledge and learning are ‘done’ in interrelated practices that may span multiple fields like the professional, educational, and research field. Such practices integrate knowledge across disciplines (interdisciplinarity) and sectors (intersectorality) in order to learn to enact, educate, and research complex responsible management. Accordingly, constellations of collaborative transdisciplinary practices span the three layers of the responsible management field: Professional responsible management, responsible management education, and responsible management research. We apply this framework to map both recent responsible management learning publications and contributions to this special issue. We notice that although the responsible management field’s aspiration for transdisciplinarity is high the degree to which it has been realized is low. This results in our proposal for a research agenda, which points out impediments to transdisciplinary, and research directions for the responsible management learning field. We also highlight theoretical implications of our conceptual framework for the larger transdisciplinarity discussion.

AB - The emerging field of responsible management learning is characterized by an urgent need for transdisciplinary practices. We conceptualize constellations of transdisciplinary practices by building up on a social practice perspective. From this perspective, knowledge and learning are ‘done’ in interrelated practices that may span multiple fields like the professional, educational, and research field. Such practices integrate knowledge across disciplines (interdisciplinarity) and sectors (intersectorality) in order to learn to enact, educate, and research complex responsible management. Accordingly, constellations of collaborative transdisciplinary practices span the three layers of the responsible management field: Professional responsible management, responsible management education, and responsible management research. We apply this framework to map both recent responsible management learning publications and contributions to this special issue. We notice that although the responsible management field’s aspiration for transdisciplinarity is high the degree to which it has been realized is low. This results in our proposal for a research agenda, which points out impediments to transdisciplinary, and research directions for the responsible management learning field. We also highlight theoretical implications of our conceptual framework for the larger transdisciplinarity discussion.

KW - Collaborative practices

KW - Constellations of practices

KW - Interdisciplinarity

KW - Intersectorality

KW - PRME

KW - Responsible management learning and education

KW - Social practices

KW - Transdisciplinarity

KW - Responsible management learning and education

KW - ransdisciplinarity

KW - PRME

KW - Interdisciplinarity

KW - Intersectorality

KW - Social practices

KW - Collaborative practices

KW - Constellations of practices

KW - Sustainability sciences, Management & Economics

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85078500474&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1007/s10551-020-04440-5

DO - 10.1007/s10551-020-04440-5

M3 - Journal articles

AN - SCOPUS:85078500474

VL - 162

SP - 735

EP - 757

JO - Journal of Business Ethics

JF - Journal of Business Ethics

SN - 0167-4544

IS - 4

ER -