Theory Building at the Intersection: Recipe for Impact or Road to Nowhere?
质疑管理学通过跨学科研究构建新理论的做法，认为这可能损害管理学作为独立学科的地位，并反对将发展新理论作为管理学核心目标。
abstract Zahra and Newey (2009) argue for the importance of creative theory building in management research and suggest that this is best to be done via interdisciplinary research. We argue that the more management research goes down the road of pursuing interdisciplinary research for generating novel theories, the more likely it will compromise another worthwhile goal, which is to establish the discipline of management as a legitimate academic discipline that is distinguishable from other academic disciplines in its subject matter and its theoretical and methodological approach. We also argue against the implicit premise that the focus of management discipline should be on developing new theories.