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« Social Sciences and Management Sciences : Convergences or Divergences ? »

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Regularly in France, management sciences are criticized by several categories of people. Within the discipline, Academics from different epistemological traditions are debatting the question of their scientificity. They also try ti define the best way of doing research in ordre to be fully recognized by Universities, business schools or by orther scientific fields of « pure » sciences like physics, mathematics or Social sciences like Sociology, histroy and sometimes... Economics. Outside the frontiers of Management, academics aim to convince the Public opinion and corporate managers that their science is fully legitimate to speak about Corporations and can improve the quality and efficiency of management devices and models. Obviously, behind the screen of Official arguments, lots of thing are involved. One cornerstone which concentrated lot of these debates is the complex relationship between management and Social sciences. Seen as more critics or unable to be helpful for action design, classical social sciences – i.e for instance Political Economy, Sociology, Anthropology or History – are rejected eitheir by some management academics or people involved in day to day life. For them, their orientation towards theoretical research or « useless » knowledge seems suspect. Hence, claiming that, as a new discipline, managements sciences have to break with its glorious ancestors, some management academics minimize and or reject their methodological or epistemological influence. From where and when come this complex relationship with social sciences ? Is it possible to create what some pretend to be a totally new discipline from scratch ? This means that at least theoretically a new community and its scientific paradigma could be designed through a complete break in the path of social sciences evolution and progress.
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hal-04527729 , version 1 (30-03-2024)

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Eric Godelier. « Social Sciences and Management Sciences : Convergences or Divergences ? ». Redesigning Management Education and Research. Challenging Proposals From European Scholars, S. Daméron and T. Durand (eds.), Edward Elgar Publishing., 2011. ⟨hal-04527729⟩

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