Abstract
Industry and society face disruptive change, from digitalisation, net zero challenges, and rising costs. Industry supplies complex solutions to such societal problems, and literature claims to address such future need, inter or transdisciplinary is key. A means to differentiate disciplinarities is still elusive, but to find its value we need know what each disciplinary level looks like. This contribution suggests a disciplinary model, to evaluate the level of disciplinarity being used in a project. We use literature content analysis finding identifiers of disciplinary levels and develop a disciplinary model. To show how we created this model, the work is first placed in the context of research, we then describe the approach used to show how the data informs creating the model. The paper discusses future work needed to evaluate such models and widen the scope of its applicability.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1-23 |
| Number of pages | 23 |
| Journal | International Journal of Agile Systems and Management |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| Early online date | 4 Feb 2025 |
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| Publication status | Published - 4 Feb 2025 |
Data Availability Statement
The authors confirm that the literature related data supporting the findings of this study are available for a period upon request or can be reproduced providing they can be retrieved according to the search process and processing described in the paper, through the open Scopus repository, correspondingly, at https://www.scopus.com/search/. In instances, due to the sensitive nature of commercial information it is unable to be releasedAcknowledgements
The authors would like to acknowledge the contributions from our wider TRENDresearch group for their participation in expert studies and continued guidance throughoutthis project, without this, this work would not have been possible. The authors alsoacknowledge, the work reported in this paper was undertaken as part of the Designing theFuture: Resilient Trans-Disciplinary Design Engineers Project, at the Universities ofBath, Bristol, and Surrey.Funding
The project is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Grant EP/R013179/1
| Funders | Funder number |
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| Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council | EP/R013179/1 |
Keywords
- definitions
- disciplinarity
- disciplinary concepts
- disciplinary definitions
- disciplinary evaluation
- disciplinary model
- industry
- key identifiers
- manufacturing
- transdisciplinarity
- transdisciplinary engineering
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computer Science (miscellaneous)
- Engineering (miscellaneous)
- General
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering