Characteristics of Management Science

Melvin L. Hurni
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Melvin L. Hurni: Operations Research & Synthesis Consulting Service, General Electric Company, New York, New York

Management Science, 1960, vol. MT-1, issue 2, 37-46

Abstract: All scientific areas of knowledge share common characteristics which distinguish them from the non-scientific. In evolving into a science an area of knowledge will acquire those characteristics common to a science. This is true of Management Science. But it is equally true that subject matter differences among sciences yield characteristics that distinguish one science from the others. For a scientist dedicated to a single field of knowledge, it is these distinguishing elements that are of prime importance in guiding his work and interests. What follows is the author's attempt to identify some of the critical characteristics of Management Science (as he sees it) consequent upon a major area of its subject matter, Business Organizations, for the purpose of clarifying its role as an applied business science. "Management Technology", ISSN 0542-4917, was published as a separate journal from 1960 to 1964. In 1965 it was merged into Management Science.

Date: 1960
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