Soft Systems Methodology and Interdisciplinarity in Management Education

In: Systems research and behavioral science: the official journal of the International Federation for Systems Research, Band 33, Heft 2, S. 278-288

Abstract

One negative point of management education is the lack of integration between the disciplines that restrains a systemic view. Moreover, there is not much research about an interdisciplinary approach to management. This paper applies soft systems methodology to develop a scale of interdisciplinarity in order to evaluate management education. We conclude that interdisciplinarity in management education is a social system that requires complex thinking development for management students. The scale addresses three dimensions: curriculum structure, organization and didactics. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.