Title: 'Representative management' as a rational research program in Kuhn-Lakatos-Laudan sense

Authors: Tadeusz Gospodarek

Addresses: Walbrzych High School of Management and Entrepreneurship, 58-309 Walbrzych, ul. Wroclawska 10, Poland

Abstract: In philosophy of science, the demarcation problem verifies what is scientific using as a verification criterion |scientific method|. In this paper, softer rule named |selective demarcation| that groups problems around criterion of existing measure or minimum principle was used for management aspects. Logical construction is based on Kuhn|s paradigm concept, extended by Lakatos in |scientific programs| approach to science development. These concepts were adapted as a set of joined paradigms describing the organisation and its interactions with the surroundings. It is a new approach to management science, which offers useful rational demarcation. As a result, the logical and consistent structure of measurable or having minimum property aspects of the management science was received. All problems that are classified this way may be transferred onto a computer language. The introduced |representative management| research program is useful in quantisation and computation of management problems, and may be understood as a formal proof of their existing semantic model.

Keywords: optimum topology; organisational topology; paradigm; philosophy of management; representative management; research programmes; scientific method; selective demarcation; management science; rational demarcation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEBR.2009.024684

International Journal of Economics and Business Research, 2009 Vol.1 No.4, pp.409 - 421

Published online: 15 Apr 2009 *

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