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Organization studies seem to draw on the whole family of social sciences, clearly psychology, clearly sociology, but also economics, anthropology, politics, as we said, philosophy to a degree, history, sometimes literary studies, cultural studies, so on and so forth. I think that’s absolutely right. And for me, that’s absolutely the pleasure and even on good days, the joy of doing organizations studies, because it enables you not just enables, but requires you in some sense, to have some kind of broad familiarization of that sort. Now, there’s a price to be paid for that because that kind of breadth, if you like, does come, I suppose as the cost of depth. And I guess there would be people who are clearly within academic disciplines or sociology or economics or whatever, who might say, well, these are sort of Magpie-sh, amateurish kind of forays into our territory. You know,I wouldn’t necessarily disown that idea. But I think that what studying organizations teaches us and teaches me is actually the artificiality of those academic subdivisions. And as soon as we start to actually think about something like the organized world, then immediately, the kinds of things that come into focus are things have traditionally been studied by different demands. And so, I think it’s a liberating idea, the idea that we don’t need to be bound by those strictures and structures of disciplinary division, and that we can be free actually to imagine and think about the social world through an agglomeration of techniques and ideas and theories and concepts from across the social sciences.

Organization studies utilize a broad range of social sciences, including psychology, sociology, economics, and anthropology, fostering a deep understanding of complex societal dynamics. This interdisciplinary approach highlights the artificiality of academic divisions, encouraging a comprehensive view of the organized world. Despite critiques of superficiality, the freedom to integrate diverse theories and concepts enriches the study of organizations.