The Complexity of Transdisciplinary Literature Reviews

Authors

  • Alfonso Montuori

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29173/cmplct20399

Abstract

The transdisciplinary literature review is an opportunity to situate the inquirer in an ecology of ideas. This article explores how we might approach this process from a perspective of complexity, and addresses some of the key challenges and opportunities. Four main dimensions are considered: (a) inquiry-based rather than discipline-based; (b) integrating rather than eliminating the inquirer from the inquiry; (c) meta-paradigmatic rather than intra-paradigmatic; and (d) applying systems and complex thought rather than reductive/disjunctive thinking.

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Published

2013-08-02

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 1/2 (2013)

Section

Research Articles

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