Editorial

Abstract

It has been an interesting start to the 51st volume of DECISION. For the last few months, we have been observing an increase in the number of submissions to the journal. What is even more interesting is the nature of research that is being conducted is also increasingly interdisciplinary. There is little doubt that adopting an interdisciplinary approach to a research problem enables a more thorough comprehension than what might be achieved through any single discipline alone. It is also quite possible that more complex, uncertain and ambiguous problems continue to emerge in management and social sciences, demanding that disciplinary boundaries be transgressed. Interdisciplinary research also brings along other dynamics that result from heterogeneity in languages and cognitive systems, beliefs and value systems shared by researchers, not to mention the ground realities in negotiating the publishing process.