Parochialism in the Evolution of a Research Community: The Case of Organization Studies
研究了组织研究共同体因语言、国家、文化和区域边界而地理碎片化，这种碎片化虽限制整合，但有助于异质思想抵抗主流同质化趋势，并探讨了如何维持和打破研究边界，特别关注中国组织研究的兴起。
The organizations research community is a multidisciplinary, multinational and multilingual association of scholars with all the paraphernalia of international exchange. Nevertheless, it is a community that is organized in a geographically fragmented way, with linguistic, national, cultural and regional boundaries separating relatively autonomous scholarly communities. Although this fragmentation limits the integration of organization studies, it serves an adaptive role in making the resistance of deviant ideas to the homogenizing tendencies of dominant scholarly groups easier. The effective use of such differentiation, however, requires linkages among the fragmented parts of the field. We consider some ways of thinking about how research boundaries can be both sustained and violated, with particular attention to the emergence of Chinese scholarship in the study of organizations.