Between charisma and heuristics: four styles of interdisciplinarity

Martin Lengwiler

Science and Public Policy, 2006, vol. 33, issue 6, 423-434

Abstract: The paper examines the practices of interdisciplinary research projects in nine extra-university research institutions in Germany. The research fields of these institutions include representative fields of current interdisciplinary research, such as climate change research, environmental studies, organizational research, and area studies. The analysis shows that the outcome of interdisciplinary research cooperation depends upon the micro-organization of research practices. There is, however, no singular recipe for a successful cooperation. Instead, the case studies show a multiplicity of adequate “styles of interdisciplinarity”: methodological, charismatic, heuristic and pragmatic interdisciplinarity. The differences between them depend upon the organizational and epistemic conditions of research practices. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.

Date: 2006
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