Business Management: Science or Art?

Ross B. Emmett

A chapter in Frank H. Knight in Iowa City, 1919–1928, 2011, pp 49-54 from Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Abstract: The familiarity with which the term “scientific” is bandied about these days would almost suggest that it denotes something sacred! The danger of familiarity and sanctity is that we may be lulled or frightened into using the word unthinkingly, and it is very necessary to be especially critical as to the meaning of just such terms. The purpose of these paragraphs is to urge a more wary attitude that it sometimes displayed toward the notion of “scientific management” in business, and to sound a warning against a serious error in the conception of business education.

Date: 2011
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