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ROLES & MISSIONS

Since its inauguration in 2008, The Society of Interdisciplinary Business Research (SIBR) has been striving to extend researchers' knowledge and understanding of the real business world from interdisciplinary perspectives. SIBR promotes and facilitates interdisciplinary business research by providing an international avenue where researchers from all business and economics disciplines can share and discuss their research. Thanks to the long-standing support from researchers, members and collaborating universities, SIBR has successfully established itself a center of excellence for interdisciplinary business and economics research. The Society organizes regular workshops, seminars and international conferences that bring together researchers from all business and economics disciplines to meet and interact. The Society's journal - Review of Integrative Business and Economics Research - is published by GMP Press.


INTERDISCIPLINARITY PARADIGM

A classic definition of Interdisciplinarity comes from Julie T. Klein and William H. Newell as follows: Interdisciplinary studies may be defined as a process of answering a question, solving a problem, or addressing a topic that is too broad or complex to be dealt with adequately by a single discipline or professions. . . . IDS draws on disciplinary perspectives and integrates their insights through construction of a more comprehensive perspective (see “Advancing Interdisciplinary Studies” in Jerry Gaff & James Ratcliff eds, Handbook of the Undergraduate Curriculum. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1997). An interdisciplinary business field is a field of study that crosses traditional boundaries between business disciplines or schools of thought. Interdisciplinary business research can range from sharing of ideas to full integration of business disciplines, especially the integration of their concepts, methodology, procedures, epistemology, terminology and data. Conducting interdisciplinary business research requires the skills to analyze, synthesize and harmonize links between disciplines into a coordinated and coherent whole. The real business world is multi-disciplinary in nature, and it often requires understanding of diverse disciplines to solve real-world business problems. The interdisciplinarity of a research topic is not defined by its distance from each contributing discipline but whether the topic is fundamentally multi-faceted or complex. The point is that the various disciplines are not the focus of interdisciplinarity – the focus is the research topic or intellectual question that the various disciplines are trying to address.

News & Announcement
Society of Interdisciplinary Business Research entered into a collaborative agreement with Lab for Entrepreneurship and Development (LEAD) in  2022. LEAD is based in Cambridge, MA that spun-out of Harvard's IQSS.
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Call for book chapters: International Symposia in Economic Theory and Econometrics.
This monograph series publishes research monographs of the highest quality and importance. All chapters published in this series are refereed relative to the standards of the best journals. The topics chosen are those of particular research importance at the time of the selection of the topics. For details, contact secretary@sibresearch.org.