What does this research mean for the field?

Interdisciplinary research is more effectively understood and evaluated as bundles of practices—guided by sensitization, reflexivity, and mobilization—rather than through dominant typological and structural approaches. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.METHODOLOGICAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.CHALLENGES_CONSENSUS.

What question did this study set out to answer?

To reconceptualize interdisciplinary research through practice theory and examine how routine actions coordinate complex collaboration without forcing rigid epistemological integration.

September 14, 2026Journal of Management StudiesOpen Access

Reimagining Interdisciplinarity: Sensitization, Reflexivity, and Mobilization Across Landscapes of Practice

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RNRyan NolanUniversity of Exeter FSFrank SiedlokAndrews University PHPaul HibbertUniversity of St Andrews

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Implication

Conceptual analysis uncovers core practices driving interdisciplinary collaboration in research organizations, suggesting that effective coordination requires sensitization and reflexivity over...

Key Points

To reconceptualize interdisciplinary research through practice theory and examine how routine actions coordinate complex collaboration without forcing rigid epistemological integration.
Applied practice theory to analyze interdisciplinary research as bundles of activities distributed across landscapes of professional practice.
Theorized a conceptual framework based on sensitization, reflexivity, and mobilization to explain cross-disciplinary coordination.
Demonstrates that structural and typological interventions provide helpful background conditions but fail to guarantee collaborative outcomes.
Identifies the fragility, temporality, and politics inherent in interdisciplinary work, proposing that evaluation shift from proxy bibliometrics to collaborative practices.

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Nolan et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6aa7b2f70926e14a848b183a https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.70158

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Implication

Conceptual analysis uncovers core practices driving interdisciplinary collaboration in research organizations, suggesting that effective coordination requires sensitization and reflexivity over...