The inter and intra discipline linkage between Economics, Business administration and Social sciences

Abstract

This study aims at investigating the extent to which six disciplines (Economic, Business administration, Finance and investment, Accounting, Banking and Insurance and risk management) reach out to spaces shared with other disciplines at the College of Economic and Administrative sciences in the University of Al-Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University. First, we look at the descriptive statistics to know the attendance of each course in various specialties. Second, we employ two ratios to measure the penetration extent of each economic branch in different social sciences branches and vice versa. In the intraspecific linkage measurement, our results indicate that these disciplines are far from having a dependence with History, Politics, Ethics and Sociology sciences. Moreover, we find that studies of the Sharia are flourishing and the economic and Business administration courses in the field are being defended. In the field study of interspecific linkage, our results indicate a deficiency of the linkage between the related disciplines in different manners. Economic and Business administration disciplines have, especially, the lowest degree of openness, compared to the rest of disciplines.