Initiating and Maintaining Collaborations and Facilitating Understanding in Interdisciplinary Group Research

Beck, Stephenson J.; Meinecke, Annika L.; Matsuyama, Yoichi; Lee, Chi Chun

doi:10.1177/1046496417721746

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“…Commonly, these issues lead to a focus on multidisciplinarity rather than true interdisciplinarity (Beck, Meinecke, Matsuyama, & Lee, 2017). In other words, these issues lead to a focus on factions from different backgrounds completing projects germane to their own area and later combining those projects into an overarching finished product.…”

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Evaluating the Interdisciplinary Mission of Small Group Research Using Computational Analytics

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Sawhney

2018

Small Group Research

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Richard Kettner-Polley and Charles Gavin founded Small Group Research ( SGR) to present research, build theory, and generally advance the study of small groups by combining insights from multiple disciplines. Currently, we evaluate the extent to which this interdisciplinary mission has been upheld over time. To do this, we apply the perspective and tools of big data analytics to the nearly 3 million words that span the 829 articles that comprise the SGR corpus from February 1990 to June 2017. Keyword analysis, ontological ordering, and interdisciplinary content analyses identify intriguing patterns and detect latent trends. Our results speak to the consistent interdisciplinarity of SGR while identifying opportunities for further development and more complex disciplinary integration in research on small groups.

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“…In this way, multidisciplinary work takes an additive approach to combining expertise without the necessity of communication or coordination among researchers (Choi & Pak, 2006; Klein, 2010). Alternatively, interdisciplinary work requires the integration of knowledge, theories, and methodologies from multiple fields (Beck et al, 2017; Klein, 2010).…”

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Evaluating the Interdisciplinary Mission of Small Group Research Using Computational Analytics

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2018

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“…Interdisciplinary teams with varied expertise and training have the potential to recombine their knowledge in novel ways to create truly innovative outcomes (Taylor & Greve, 2006; West, 2002; Yong et al, 2014). Teams research suggests (a) teams composed of members with different knowledge and expertise have greater innovative potential (Mello & Rentsch, 2015; van Dijk et al, 2012; van Knippenberg, 2017), and (b) realizing this potential depends upon teams’ ability to share and integrate distinct member expertise in pursuit of team goals (Baumann & Bonner, 2013; Beck et al, 2017; Lehmann-Willenbrock et al, 2017). Research also suggests that teams are not naturally adept at sharing and integrating their knowledge resources (Mesmer-Magnus & DeChurch, 2009; Stasser & Titus, 1985).…”

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Interdisciplinarity and Team Innovation: The Role of Team Experiential and Relational Resources

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Mesmer‐Magnus

2020

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Interdisciplinary teams composed of members with different expertise possess a variety of perspectives, which increases their potential for innovation. In reality, team members often fail to integrate their expertise, resulting in the team not reaching its innovative potential. It is argued the unsharedness of expertise within interdisciplinary teams has an inverted-U relationship with innovation. To explore the conditions under which the unsharedness of expertise enhances or impairs innovation, the resource-based view of organizational productivity is applied to teams. It is argued the amount and configuration of team relational and experiential resources facilitate teams’ ability to integrate members’ expertise for innovation.

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“…The research committee's proposal may include a preliminary version of a conceptual framework, a common methodology, and a strategy to synthesize data from different research projects. After program start, the research committee states common objectives for all projects, coordinates activities between projects, assigns tasks, provides background knowledge on the topic and establishes a common terminology (Beck et al 2017;Bennett and Gadlin 2012;Hall et al 2012).…”

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Simulation research and design: a dual-level framework for multi-project research programs

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Collaborations between researchers and practitioners have recently become increasingly popular in education, and educational design research (EDR) may benefit greatly from investigating such partnerships. One important domain in which EDR on collaborations between researchers and practitioners can be applied is research on simulation-based learning. However, frameworks describing both research and design processes in research programs on simulation-based learning are currently lacking. The framework proposed in this paper addresses this research gap. It is derived from theory and delineates levels, phases, activities, roles, and products of research programs to develop simulations as complex scientific artifacts for research purposes. This dual-level framework applies to research programs with a research committee and multiple subordinate research projects. The proposed framework is illustrated by examples from the actual research and design process of an interdisciplinary research program investigating the facilitation of diagnostic competences through instructional support in simulations. On a theoretical level, the framework contributes primarily to the literature of EDR by offering a unique dual-level perspective. Moreover, on a practical level, the framework may help by providing recommendations to guide the research and design process in research programs.

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Initiating and Maintaining Collaborations and Facilitating Understanding in Interdisciplinary Group Research

Cited by 10 publications

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Evaluating the Interdisciplinary Mission of Small Group Research Using Computational Analytics

Evaluating the Interdisciplinary Mission of Small Group Research Using Computational Analytics

Interdisciplinarity and Team Innovation: The Role of Team Experiential and Relational Resources

Simulation research and design: a dual-level framework for multi-project research programs

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