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Management Science: Science of Managing and Managing of Science

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  • C. West Churchman

    (Center for Research in Management, 554 Barrows Hall, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720)

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As the first editor-in-chief of Management Science , I expressed my ambition for the society (TIMS) and its journal. My notion was that a society and journal in the subject of a science of management would investigate how humans can manage their affairs well. For me, “well” means “ethically,” or in the best interest of humanity in a world of filthy oppression and murder (I'm a philosopher and therefore have a philosophical bias, the same bias Plato had when he wrote the Republic ). I find that 40 years later management scientists have been inventing all kinds of mathematical models and novelties (management by objectives, game theory, artificial intelligence, expert systems, TQM, chaos theory), and none of these has contributed much to the ethical benefit of human beings. Hence, in 1993, we are still waiting for a science of management to emerge, although there are some lights at the end of the tunnel.

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  • C. West Churchman, 1994. "Management Science: Science of Managing and Managing of Science," Interfaces, INFORMS, vol. 24(4), pages 99-110, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:orinte:v:24:y:1994:i:4:p:99-110
    DOI: 10.1287/inte.24.4.99
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    7. Wallace J. Hopp, 2004. "Fifty Years of Management Science," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 50(1), pages 1-7, January.
    8. Jean-Pierre Brans & Giorgio Gallo, 2007. "Ethics in OR/MS: past, present and future," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 153(1), pages 165-178, September.
    9. Ormerod, Richard J. & Ulrich, Werner, 2013. "Operational research and ethics: A literature review," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 228(2), pages 291-307.
    10. Mingers, John, 2011. "Ethics and OR: Operationalising discourse ethics," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 210(1), pages 114-124, April.
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