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Towards Transdisciplinarity: Liminality and the Transitions Inherent in Pluridisciplinary Collaborative Work

Journal of Business Anthropology

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Title Towards Transdisciplinarity: Liminality and the Transitions Inherent in Pluridisciplinary Collaborative Work
 
Creator Miller, Christine Z.
 
Subject Liminality; invisible work; pluridisciplinary; interdisciplinary; multidisciplinary; transdisciplinary teamwork
 
Description Although the value of cross-disciplinary teams is widely accepted, relatively little attention has been given to the work that precedes addressing a team’s objective or stated problem, that is, the work required to negotiate their various disciplinary perspectives. This article considers how the notion of liminality, a cultural and social state of “betweenness,” might be used to conceptualize transitory stages in the development of pluridisciplinary groups and teams that are comprised of individuals from many diverse disciplines. It suggests how anthropologists can play a role in guiding and facilitating this particular domain of invisible work.
 
Publisher Copenhagen Business School
 
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Date 2016-01-08
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://ej.lib.cbs.dk/index.php/jba/article/view/4959
 
Source Journal of Business Anthropology; 2016: Special Issue 2: Liminality; 35-57
2245-4217
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://ej.lib.cbs.dk/index.php/jba/article/view/4959/5401