At the invitation of the School of Management and Economics, a tenured associate professor at Anger High School of Business in France gave an academic report titled "Cross disciplinary Research on the Theme of Catching up with the Future" at Conference Room 317 in the main building on May 8, 2023. The report was hosted by Professor Yin Ximing, and more than 30 teachers and students, including Vice Dean Ye Xuanting and Professor Wen Xinmin from the Department of Technology, Economics and Strategic Management, participated in this presentation through a combination of online and offline methods.
At the beginning of the report, Professor Xiong Jie pointed out that the importance of interdisciplinary or Transdisciplinarity has been highlighted in recent years. However, no mature paradigm for reference has yet been found, no matter whether it is from natural disciplines to social disciplines or from social disciplines to natural disciplines. The intersection of management studies with other disciplines has its unique characteristics and opportunities. Currently, the two important paradigms in management research - induction or deduction - have a certain scientific foundation in their intersection with other disciplines. At the same time, as the research process between different disciplines roughly follows the process of "discovering problems, proposing problems, and solving problems", interdisciplinary research can be carried out in one or more of these three stages in a timely manner. Constrained by the cognitive bias or disciplinary basis difference of researchers, and the lack of scientific training in Transdisciplinarity, opportunities and challenges coexist in Transdisciplinarity.
Therefore, Professor Xiong Jie further shares his attempt to conduct interdisciplinary research after analyzing his own discipline based on management. Professor Xiong Jie uses catching up and industrial upgrading as examples to explain and explore the research background, development context, and remaining issues. Regarding the development context, Professor Xiong analyzed the characteristics, research design, research process, and presentation of research results of catching up research; And based on this, expand and share potential opportunities for interdisciplinary scientific research.
After sorting out the remaining issues, Professor Xiong Jie compared his years of practical work and research experience to explore the possibility of small domain intersection and large domain intersection. Finally, he shared the current ongoing research projects and unpublished research achievements, including traditional management research topics and interdisciplinary research trends.
After the report, the attending teachers and students had a positive discussion with Professor Xiong through a combination of online and offline methods, which received a lot of inspiration. The report received a warm response and received unanimous praise from teachers and students.
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Xiong Jie, associate professor (Academic tenure, Department of Strategy, International Business and Entrepreneurship) of France's Anger Business School (ESSCA), once served as a Academic tenure of France's ESC Rennes School of Business, and obtained a doctorate in management from France's EMLYON Business School. Research interests include catching up of latecomer countries and enterprises, sustainable development, Innovation management and interdisciplinary. I have presided over the general project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, participated in the National Social Science Major Fund project, and published more than 67 corresponding Chinese and English papers, including more than 30 indexed journals by SCI/SSCI/CSSCI/FMS. The research results have been invited to give presentations at international academic conferences multiple times, such as the European Management Association (EURAM), the International Business Association (AIB), the European International Business Association (EIBA), and the American Marketing Association (AMA). Dr. Xiong Jie has received multiple awards, such as the Outstanding Talent Introduction Award in Italy from 2008 to 2010, and the ERASMUS MUNDUS Scholarship from the EU Education and Culture Agency from 2006 to 2008. Dr. Xiong has long taught in company strategy, market research methods, international business, and other fields, with rich international teaching experience. He has taught related courses at top universities in France, Austria, Morocco, Lithuania, Germany, Latvia, and other countries.
