Interdisciplinary Research inSCM: Through the Lens of the Behavioral Theory of the Firm
通过企业行为理论的视角，探讨供应链管理研究中跨学科合作的必要性、方法论多样性及其对解决当代商业挑战的价值，并介绍特刊的五篇论文。
To accelerate research discoveries—those required to address paramount challenges facing business today—researchers from diverse disciplines must work together. Interdisciplinary research ( IDR ) is a research that involves bringing together perspectives from two or more disciplines in an integrative manner to address complex and multifaceted supply chain management ( SCM ) problems. IDR is needed to address contemporary business challenges. We look at SCM research through the lens of the Behavioral Theory of the Firm ( BTF ) drawing parallels in research evolution and noting similar antecedents in theoretical development. We point to the advances BTF has offered to organizational theory built on IDR and consider the possibilities for SCM . We make a case for methodological diversity in supporting this research, further paralleling lessons from BTF . Last, we describe the state of IDR in SCM today, discuss the objective of this special issue, and showcase the five contributing papers.