Building Theory for Management Science and Practice: An Epistemological Perspective from Competence-Based Management Theory

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Ron Sanchez ◽  
Aimé Heene
Keyword(s):  
Management Science ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Epistemological Perspective

scholarly journals The Development of Management Theory in Business Organizations, an Overview of the Science Philosophy Perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 77
Author(s):  
Miswaanto Miswanto
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
Management Science ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Management Process ◽  
Ethical Values ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Epistemological Perspective ◽  
Science Philosophy

Based on the philosophy of science, the development of management science uses the perspective of ontology, epistemology, and axiology. In the perspective of ontology, the essence of management theory in business organizations is the science that offers a management process so that business organizations can achieve their goals. The final goal to be achieved by the process this management is the achievement or fulfillment of goals that have been set. Based on an epistemological perspective, management theory in business organizations introduces methods or ways of making decisions or solving problems that can be used by managers in running business organizations. In addition, management science introduces various management theories to be practiced in business activities. In an axiological perspective, ethical values and social responsibility must be a serious concern in applying management science to business organizations. In management theory, business orientation is not only looking for profit but also give attention to the norms prevailing in society and give attention to the interests and welfare of all parties. Because management theory has the perspective of ontology, epistemology, and axiology, management theory is really a philosophy of science. Therefore, management theory needs to be developed to be implemented in business organizations.

scholarly journals Animating Management

2021 ◽  
pp. 119-143
Author(s):  
Jordan Gowanlock
Keyword(s):  
Management Science ◽  
Corporate Image ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Digital Animation ◽  
Controlled Conditions ◽  
Epistemic Frame

AbstractThis chapter studies how the management theory of digital animation studios like Pixar Animation has been influenced by the paradigms that premise their unpredictable algorithmic animations. This epistemic frame leads Pixar to represent creativity as the unpredictable product of carefully controlled conditions and parameters. This collapse of technology, animation, and management science helps to sculpt Pixar’s own corporate image as both an animation studio and a technology company. These findings nuance existing accounts of post-Fordist labor in creative industries.

scholarly journals Scientific School of Management Theory

Upravlenie ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-8
Author(s):  
Латфуллин ◽  
Gennadiy Latfullin
Keyword(s):  
Production Management ◽  
Management Science ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Scientific School ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Design Development ◽  
Holistic Management ◽  
Economic Institute ◽  
Contemporary Management ◽  
In The Beginning

With man’s appearance on the earth everything of his existence, functioning and development was provided by a targeted impact on the environment. Expressing this impact the process of setting and achieving goals is now defined as a universal management of the widest range of objects, most notably human society. Naturally, this process became a matter of practical observation, applied research, theory building, causing over time, formation of management science. The initiator, founder and organizer of the first in our country scientific school of management theory and of the Department, got in the beginning, the name “Scientific fundamentals of production management” of the Moscow Engineering Economic Institute, became doctor of economic Sciences, Professor Kozlova Olympiada Vasil’evna. She united and directed the research and teaching activities of scientists and practitioners to the design, development and application of holistic management theory. Today it has become one of the fundamental principles of presentation and development of contemporary management science.

The Structure of Theory and the Structure of Scientific Revolutions

2011 ◽  
pp. 2177-2201
Author(s):  
Steven E. Wallis
Keyword(s):  
Systems Theory ◽  
Objective Measure ◽  
Management Science ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
University Management ◽  
Business World ◽  
Scientific Revolutions ◽  
Structure Of Scientific Revolutions

From a Kuhnian perspective, a paradigmatic revolution in management science will significantly improve our understanding of the business world and show practitioners (including managers and consultants) how to become much more effective. Without an objective measure of revolution, however, the door is open for spurious claims of revolutionary advance. Such claims cause confusion among scholars and practitioners and reduce the legitimacy of university management programs. Metatheoretical methods, based on insights from systems theory, provide new tools for analyzing the structure of theory. Propositional analysis is one such method that may be applied to objectively quantify the formal robustness of management theory. In this chapter, I use propositional analysis to analyze different versions of a theory as it evolves across 1,500 years of history. This analysis shows how the increasing robustness of theory anticipates the arrival of revolution and suggests an innovative and effective way for scholars and practitioners to develop and evaluate theories of management.

The Structure of Theory and the Structure of Scientific Revolutions

2010 ◽  
pp. 151-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven E. Wallis
Keyword(s):  
Systems Theory ◽  
Objective Measure ◽  
Management Science ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
University Management ◽  
Business World ◽  
Scientific Revolutions ◽  
Structure Of Scientific Revolutions

From a Kuhnian perspective, a paradigmatic revolution in management science will significantly improve our understanding of the business world and show practitioners (including managers and consultants) how to become much more effective. Without an objective measure of revolution, however, the door is open for spurious claims of revolutionary advance. Such claims cause confusion among scholars and practitioners and reduce the legitimacy of university management programs. Metatheoretical methods, based on insights from systems theory, provide new tools for analyzing the structure of theory. Propositional analysis is one such method that may be applied to objectively quantify the formal robustness of management theory. In this chapter, I use propositional analysis to analyze different versions of a theory as it evolves across 1,500 years of history. This analysis shows how the increasing robustness of theory anticipates the arrival of revolution and suggests an innovative and effective way for scholars and practitioners to develop and evaluate theories of management.

scholarly journals Untangling Faculty Misinformation From an Educational Perspective: Rejoinder to “The Menace of Misinformation: Faculty Misstatements in Management Education and Their Consequences”

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 446-453
Author(s):  
Taiga Brahm ◽  
Tobias Jenert
Keyword(s):  
Natural Law ◽  
Economic Model ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Management Science ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
The Future ◽  
Educational Perspective ◽  
Future Management ◽  
Management Theories

In their thought-provoking article, Giacalone and Promislo point to some problematic ideas in management education such as the adoration of materialism and competition or the notion of the economic model as a natural law. But do students really develop such ideas because they were misinformed by their teachers? Misinformation implies that what is taught is not the truth or at least not the whole truth. We suggest that the question of how to design future management education cannot be answered by only looking at what should be taught. Rather, we suggest that debates about the future of management education should not only be concerned with content but also the epistemology and the teaching of management theory. Not only does the current mainstream of management education misinform students by painting a one-sided picture of economic realities. Rather, and even more importantly, it leads students to develop misconceptions of knowledge in management science as being objective and unambiguous. Teaching students how to reflect on the assumptions behind management theories as well as their own assumptions and values might be a possible way to tackle the challenge of misinformation.

Methodological tools of management science in social and economic environments

2020 ◽  
pp. 4-17
Author(s):  
B.N. Gerasimov
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Management Science ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Type Model ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
System Process ◽  
Management Approaches

At present, sometimes there is a need to use the main methodological tools of management science that form the vision and support the choice of management approaches to research, construction and reform of objects in various fields of activity in social and economic environments. The scientific literature of management theory and empirical research allowed us to choose the main approaches that are most productively used in economic systems of the «organization» type. Model representations of system, process, functional, and situational approaches to the formation of structures, relationships and content of objects in social and economic environments are developed.

scholarly journals A case study of globalized knowledge flows: Guanxi in social science and management theory

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 707-723 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoying Qi
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Management Science ◽  
Knowledge Flows ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Theoretical Development ◽  
Knowledge Flow ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
Concept Theory

This article examines globalized knowledge flows through a case study of the treatment of the Chinese concept of guanxi in social and management science journals. Three forms of concept–theory relations are postulated which effectively correspond with different patterns of knowledge flow. The treatment of this concept in 214 refereed journal articles published from 1999 to 2009 indicates that the concept guanxi, which possesses capacity for theoretical development, is predominantly treated merely as an object of study rather than the basis of theoretical elaboration. A continuing dominant pattern of knowledge flows from the metropole to the periphery is thus indicated. The mechanisms of continuing asymmetrical knowledge flow are discussed, including language used, site of publication, channel of transmission and method as factors generating this outcome.

scholarly journals Evolution of managerial problems from the perspective of management science

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 362-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marek Szarucki
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Specific Problem ◽  
Management Science ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Literature Analysis ◽  
Management Problems ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Over Time

Managerial problems and the process of their solving play an important role both in the theory of management science and practice of organisations’ functioning. There is a gap in the literature related to the evolution of management problems in the context of the methodological approaches to solve them. The main goal of this paper was to analyse the evolution of the managerial problems from the perspective of management science and to present dominant methodological approaches for problem solving. Based on the extensive literature analysis in the discipline of management science, the evolution of the managerial problems was described with relation to the sixteen streams of management science. The author reviewed the selected classifications of the management theory as well as proposed his own perspective, which took into account managerial problems and their evolution over time. Moreover, there was presented an attempt to depict sources of management problems from the historical perspective within the methodological approaches of management science. Despite the broad view on management problems presented in this paper, such perspective gives a good ground for developing new more specific problem classifications, addressing different facets of managerial problems.

scholarly journals Development of management theory - a challenge of the time

2021 ◽  
pp. 5-10
Author(s):  
V. G. Antonov ◽  
A. V. Raychenko
Keyword(s):  
Management Science ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Systemic Crisis

The publication considers topical issues of formulation, positioning and development of management theory in the system of socio-economic sciences and disciplines. The paper identifies signs, analyses the reasons, substantiates and proposes approaches, develops options for solving the systemic crisis of management science, its renewal and development in modern socio-economic conditions. The research presented in this publication determines and substantiates the key areas for improving the theory as a fundamental basis for the development of a complex of management disciplines. The authors propose and disclose the step-by-step content of the roadmap for the progressive expansion and deepening of research of modern concepts of management theory, their approbation, adaptation and use in scientific and educational spheres. 

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