Problematizing interactions between social science and public policy

Parry, Sarah; Murphy, Joseph

doi:10.1080/19460171.2014.964277

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“…Therefore, they cannot be oblivious to what goes on around them. After all, is not it the goal of research to create understanding about phenomena that really matter and to build foundations for social change (Parry and Murphy, 2015;Pfeffer and Fong, 2002)?…”

Section: International Business Is Global and A Select Composite Of Omentioning

confidence: 99%

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Global health and international business: new frontiers of international business research

Ahen

2019

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to revisit the interdisciplinary roots of international business (IB) by challenging the compartmentalized and obscured nature of certain major themes in current IB research. Here, the author broadens IB’s natural scope by introducing the links with global health while preemptively removing the existing limits of critical perspectives. Design/methodology/approach The study synthesizes ignored common insights from IB and global health governance. It supplies a select composite of emerging themes mostly at the interface of IB and global health as foundational proposals for reengaging IB for radical social change. This is in response to the urgent calls for inquiries into the “extra dimensions” of IB in answering wicked questions of global sustainability, injustice and inequality and other emergent grand challenges whilst embracing novel conceptual, theoretical and empirical opportunities. Findings This study demonstrates that IB research in its current form is reductive, quintessentially compartmentalized and evidently weak in responding to the emergent wicked problems of global scale. This is because several layers of complex, burning interconnected questions with roots in IB hardly receive exposure in research although they are the very existential and emerging issues with massive impacts on populations both in home and host countries. Practical implications This study sets new research agendas for critically studying IB and global health topics of vital relevance to reflect the changing frontiers of knowledge production in the fourth industrial revolution. Originality/value This study calls for deeper and broader discussions about the limitless opportunities of cross-fertilization of IB and other disciplines whilst highlighting the heretofore-overlooked connections between IB and environmental and medico-techno-scientific disciplines.

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Section: International Business Is Global and A Select Composite Of Omentioning

confidence: 99%

“…NGOs, consultancies, individual scholars and Think Tanks are drawing attention to the issues that matter using the scientific methods (Shaw et al, 2015). This means that IB scholars have other competitors who are also policy influencers (Parry and Murphy, 2015).…”

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Global health and international business: new frontiers of international business research

Ahen

2019

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Anatomy of a buzzword: The emergence of ‘the water-energy-food nexus’ in UK natural resource debates

Cairns

Krzywoszynska

2016

Environmental Science & Policy

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The gendered politics of researching military policy in the age of the ‘knowledge economy’

Catignani

Basham

2021

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This article explores our experiences of conducting feminist interpretive research on the British Army Reserves. The project, which examined the everyday work-Army-life balance challenges that reservists face, and the roles of their partners/spouses in enabling them to fulfil their military commitments, is an example of a potential contribution to the so-called ‘knowledge economy’, where publicly funded research has come to be seen as ‘functional’ for political, military, economic, and social advancement. As feminist interpretive researchers examining an institution that prizes masculinist and functionalist methodologies, instrumentalised knowledge production, and highly formalised ethics approval processes, we faced multiple challenges to how we were able to conduct our research, who we were able to access, and what we were able to say. We show how military assumptions about what constitutes proper ‘research’, bolstered by knowledge economy logics, reinforces gendered power relationships that keep hidden the significant roles women (in our case, the partners/spouses of reservists) play in state security. Accordingly, we argue that the functionalist and masculinist logics interpretive researchers face in the age of the knowledge economy help more in sustaining orthodox modes of knowledge production about militaries and security, and in reinforcing gendered power relations, than they do in advancing knowledge.

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Problematizing interactions between social science and public policy

Cited by 3 publications

References 28 publications

Global health and international business: new frontiers of international business research

Global health and international business: new frontiers of international business research

Anatomy of a buzzword: The emergence of ‘the water-energy-food nexus’ in UK natural resource debates

The gendered politics of researching military policy in the age of the ‘knowledge economy’

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