ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates the challenges associated with discipline-based tribalism, how to confront it in professional life, and perhaps how to exploit it for beneficial career development. Individuals from firms in politically-repressive countries are less likely to respond at all or respond truthfully to questions about bribery and corruption. Respondents in those countries fear that their response will get back to the local mayor, chief of police, or party official shaking them down for a "contribution" important to continued business survival and success. There is more than a little tribalism in the Academy. By tribalism, people mean that researchers in one discipline have a tendency to ignore much of the work on a common topic of interest another group of scholars are addressing in another discipline. Published scholarly research is foundational to career development in research universities. Collectively, there are other initiatives worth thinking about to combat tribalism.
