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Management Science Process—On the Culture of Management Science

Interfaces, 1980
In keeping with the international theme of this issue of Interfaces. I thought it would be constructive to take one of the concepts that we use in dealing with people from foreign countries and apply it in our usual work day world. The concept I am interested in is the concept of culture and the problems that are inherent whenever two people from ...
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Fitting in the Management Science Specialist

IEEE Engineering Management Review, 1979
Fuller and Atherton discuss the relationship between management science specialists and managers. Management science specialists have developed expertise in the complex quantitative techniques available to aid in decision-making. Managers on the other hand, are expected to have a good understanding of the total organizational picture.
J, Fuller, R, Atherton
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The Paradigm of the Science of Management and of Management Science

2006
This essay explores C. West Churchman’s contributions to the development of the paradigm of the science of management and of management science. No other contemporary thinker has contributed more than Churchman to the elaboration of the management paradigm.
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Statistics and management science

Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2006
I read John Mingers' article on management science and multimethodology (Mingers, 2006) with interest. I would support both his argument that statistical methods have an important role to play in management science, and his argument that it is also very important to be aware of the limitations and presuppositions of statistical approaches.
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Scientific management of science?

Policy Sciences, 2000
A framework is advanced for allocating research resources, based on the value of the information that proposed projects are expected to produce. As an organizing device, the framework uses integrated assessmentss, howing the relationships between the predictors of outcomes arising in important decisions (e.g., interest rates, mortality rates, crop ...
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The Role of Management Science

Journal of the Operational Research Society, 1980
Many of the arguments that are found in the literature on the theme "O.R./M.S. in crisis" stem not just from alternative definitions of O.R./M.S., but from differences in strongly held views about its scope and role in organisations, and these are then reflected in the vehemence with which certain definitions are defended or criticised.
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Management Sciences and Policy Sciences

Policy Sciences, 1971
Policy Sciences are making challenging “revolutionary” claims, and these are critically reviewed. Note is taken of the limited domain of the field, to public policy making, and the advisability for such a basis for differentiating this professional subgroup is questioned. There is an attempt to distinguish between the various schools and antecedents of
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Information Systems in Management Science—The Role of Management Science

Interfaces, 1971
Mathematical optimization is a collection of techniques for finding the highest ground in a well-defined region. There are a number of good computer systems available for linear programming, as well as integer, mixed-integer, and nonlinear programming. Furthermore, there are simulation languages which allow the user to search a region for near-optimal
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Management Science and Marketing Science

Management Science, 1964
This paper considers the contributions which management science has made toward the development of a science of marketing. It is convenient to appraise the present situation in decision theory terms. Insight and understanding are fostered by differentiating the difficulties encountered by management science in marketing from those in production.
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Social Sciences and Management Sciences: Convergences or Divergences?

2011
The word "management" has at least three different meaning. First, it represents all corporation's processes and actors engaged in organised action. The second meaning is of management as a frame or a way of classifying, describing and analysing social action and processes.
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