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AMS Review the network of ideas. The rhizome metaphor calls for recognition of the contingent and temporary nature of what is discovered at those nodal meeting points and encourages an understanding that what we learn continues to move between nodes in new and often unpredictable, directions (Guerin, 2013).

While it would be inaccurate to portray prior approaches to characterizing MSD research as strictly arboreal, it seems fair to characterize some as having been concerned—in arboreal fashion—with identifying its roots and differentiating it from seeming related bodies of work. For example, although (as noted earlier) Pedeliento et al.(2023) explicitly adopted a human life cycle metaphor to structure their portrayal of MSD research, they argue the need for this undertaking as remedy for approaches that have “conflated”(p. 3) MSD research with other bodies of work such as studies of market shaping, or …