Editorial: The Importance of Interdisciplinarity

Abstract

Since 1970s several authors (Benton, 1976 ; Dymsza, 1984 ) stressed the need for adopting an interdisciplinary approach. According to Brewer (1999) “interdisciplinarity generally refers to the appropriate combination of knowledge from many different specialities - especially as a means to shed new light on an actual problem”. Nissani (1997) identified ten advantages of adopting interdisciplinary knowledge and research, and one of the most important is that several intellectual, social, and practical problems need interdisciplinary approaches. Finally, during the last decade, the vast majority of call for papers, textbooks and research initiatives required or offered and interdisciplinary approach (Knights and Willmott, 1997) . The International Journal of Economic Behavior is multidisciplinary in nature and the papers collected in this issue contribute in enhancing the adoption of interdisciplinarity, especially providing stimuli for future research of economic behavior and management perspectives.

Keywords

• Interdisciplinarity