Learning to “Know Oneself” Through an Intellectual Genogram: A New Approach to Analyzing Academic Careers
提出知识谱系图方法，帮助管理学者和学生梳理影响自己的学者与学科，理解自身知识传承，从而更有效地整合多学科理论。
The field of management relies on a variety of disciplines (such as economics, sociology, psychology, and anthropology) to develop its theories. Given this diversity in disciplines underlying the management field, we argue that management scholars are likely to have difficulty in understanding the intellectual foundations of these fields and how to integrate them effectively into their work. Providing meaning, perspective, and insight is the purpose of academic research; however, if this is done without an understanding of background or context, results and interpretations might not prove to be as valuable—or even as accurate—as they could be. Thus, we suggest that academics and students of management would be well served by creating their own “intellectual genogram,” which describes those individuals who have influenced and mentored them and how the disciplines and schools of thought that they represent have affected their thinking. The process of creating an “intellectual genogram” allows individuals to better understand their intellectual heritage and gain insight on how they became who they are. We provide an illustration of an intellectual genogram of one academic and a 5-stage learning model to encourage such a learning process.