会展经济与管理:是一门学科还是一个领域?

Event Economics and Management:A Discipline or A Field?

走出会展经济与管理是"学科"还是"专业领域"的争论,需要超越传统的学科评判标准和具体学科的立场,站在科学整体转型的高度来重新认识会展学科的归属及其持续发展问题。基于对相关文献和学科评判标准的研究,对会展经济与管理成其为一门学科的合理性进行了辨析,提出会展学是一门新兴的交叉学科,但目前尚处于"前科学"阶段。进而构建了一个更加符合中国会展产业发展实际和会展学科发展基础条件的会展经济与管理知识体系,在此基础上,参照泛系理论中的大系统、系统和子系统三层次功能结构,设计了一个比较有解释力的会展学学科体系分析框架。

Nowadays,discipline and field are closing up to each other,which indicates that traditional discipline criteria have been out of date.To get out of the debate over whether event economics and management is a discipline or a field,we should transcend traditional discipline criteria and the stance of specific disciplines. Based on reviewing relevant literature and discipline criteria,this paper discriminated the rationality of event economics and management as a discipline,and argued that eventology is a rising interdiscipline but it is still in the stage of prescience.In order to analyze the structure of knowledge,we established Event Economics and Management Body of Knowledge,which is more in line with the reality of Chinese event industry development and the basic condition of event studies.Finally,in reference to the three-level functional structure in generic system theory,the paper put forward a framework of disciplinary system with strong explanatory power.