Abstract
In this chapter, Goldberg and Davidson’s notion of critical and transformative interdisciplinarity is introduced and their model of interdisciplinarity as an escape from disciplinary reductionism explained. The importance of multifaceted/mixed methods is noted. Two samples of journal articles (N = 172) are interrogated in order to characterize interdisciplinary research in the field of workplace bullying. Comparative analysis of these samples is undertaken to determine the necessary conditions for critical and transformative interdisciplinarity. Overall estimates of the degree of interdisciplinarity present in the samples are followed by analysis which assigns articles to four categories: health-focused, organization-focused, culture-focused and subordination-focused interdisciplinarity. The samples are found to be unevenly distributed across these categories, and some categories show more critical and transformative potential than others. This potential is reduced where the ontologies and epistemologies of contributing disciplines are closely aligned, as they were in one of the samples. The two samples are also assigned to categories depending on the methods they use, and again there is evidence of differences, particularly in the balance of quantitative and qualitative methods. Little or no use was made of multifaceted methodologies in the more quantitative sample. The other had more potential to contribute to critical and transformative interdisciplinarity by using multifaceted methods. The reasons for the differences in interdisciplinarity between the two samples are sought in institutional analysis, particularly in the way interdisciplinarity is limited where researchers share ontological and epistemological assumptions with employers.
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Fevre, R. (2018). Interdisciplinary and Mixed Methods Approaches to Study Workplace Bullying, Emotional Abuse and Harassment. In: D'Cruz, P., Noronha, E., Notelaers, G., Rayner, C. (eds) Concepts, Approaches and Methods. Handbooks of Workplace Bullying, Emotional Abuse and Harassment, vol 1. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5334-4_20-1
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