Organizations and Their Purposes: A Note on Churchman's Philosophy of Management

Niraj Verma
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Niraj Verma: School of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-0042

Interfaces, 1994, vol. 24, issue 4, 60-66

Abstract: In my journey in understanding and appreciating West Churchman's writings, I have distilled three ideas from a small selection of Churchman's writings relevant to the practice of management science. By reconstructing these ideas and by putting them in the broad context of Churchman's contributions, I trace the impact of Churchman's philosophy on the study of organizations and their purposes.

Keywords: professional:; MS/OR; philosophy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1994
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