Organizations and Markets

Management Theory and the Social Sciences

4 December 2006 at 12:15 pm Peter G. Klein Leave a comment

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The theme for the 2007 meeting of the European Academy of Management (Paris, 16-19 May) is “Current Management Thinking: Drawing from Social Sciences and Humanities to Address Contemporary Challenges.”

Researchers in management are invited to join us in Paris to reflect on the roots of Management, both as a scientific discipline and as a practice. In particular, Management’s focus on organisational performance is one of the critical underpinnings that transform the discipline’s borrowings from established social sciences into an autonomous field of academic investigation. This raises questions about the degree of subordination vs. emancipation of Management vis-à-vis the basic disciplines from which it draws.

Of course, the relationship between management theory and its core academic disciplines — economics, sociology, and psychology, primarily, but also history, philosophy, and political science — are key themes of this blog. 

Here is the call for papers. Submissions are due 2 January 2007.

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