Eclecticism in Business and Other Fields
21 Feb 2024
14:00 -15:30
Times are shown in local time.
Open to: All
Room W4.05 (Cambridge Judge Business School)
Trumpington St
Cambridge
CB2 1AG
United Kingdom
Join our Organisational Behaviour seminar
Speaker: Dr Kevin Kniffin, SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell University
About the seminar topic
Boundary spanning has been well-studied but comparable attention has not been paid to the career outcomes of boundary spanners. With the benefit of two large datasets covering more than one million dissertations from 1986 through 2016, we show that interdisciplinary dissertations have become consistently more common. We also show (with novel data linkages) that interdisciplinary dissertators have experienced a persistent penalty when considering salaries for their first year after earning the PhD.
More specifically, we find that the distance of topics that are combined in interdisciplinary projects is variably important across fields. Within business fields (compared with other sets of fields), doctoral graduates appear to experience a penalty for conducting research that spans distant areas, suggesting more insularity than many would expect.
Speaker bio
Kniffin studies teamwork and leadership – with the benefit of an interdisciplinary approach – and has contributed to journals including American Psychologist, Academy of Management Discoveries, and The Leadership Quarterly.
Kniffin has won awards for his teaching and research, including active support from the United States National Science Foundation (NSF) to study the career paths of (boundary-spanning) interdisciplinary doctoral graduates across STEM fields.
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