No such thing as … scientific management

Abstract

Classical (rationalistic) management science is based on an image of what constitutes scientific practice. However, the arena from which this image emanates has moved on quite considerably. As to what now constitutes science, we are drawn to the fact that the idea of an autarkic subject discipline is disappearing and being replaced by a new (cyborg) mode of thinking. Thus, for a scientific, not scientistic, management science we should consider cyborgology: management science as a cyborg science, something more than the empty rhetoric that this label at first implies.

Citation

Carney, D.P. and Williams, R. (1997), "No such thing as … scientific management", Management Decision, Vol. 35 No. 10, pp. 779-784. https://doi.org/10.1108/00251749710192101