One-Dimensional Management Science: The Making of a Technocratic Consciousness

Tony Tinker and Tony Lowe
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Tony Tinker: School of Business and Public Adminstration, Baruch College, City University of New York, New York, New York 10010
Tony Lowe: Division of Economic Studies, University of Sheffield, Sheffield 510 2TN, England

Interfaces, 1984, vol. 14, issue 2, 40-56

Abstract: Management science has lost much of the vitality and vision it had a decade ago. It languishes in a morass of technical specialization; it lacks overall coherence, and direction. The departmental structure of Management Science and the college structure of TIMS reflect a one-dimensional view: the literature elevates a “technocratic rationality” and neglects “social rationality.” A revitalized two-dimensional management science is proposed.

Keywords: professional:; MS/OR; philosophy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1984
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