Epistemology of management
[LSMA2001]
[30h] 5 credits
This course is not taught in 2009-2010
Teacher(s):
Language: English
Level: Second
Aims
Such an objective is at the same time theoretical and practical: firstly, it should help the students in understanding how a "management science" has been progressively invented, what are the challenges of such a scientific project and what are its main values and limits; secondly, it should give them the reflexive roots that appear necessary to fulfill their PhD. thesis in management studies.
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Main themes
. Introduction to main concepts and trends of epistemology in human sciences;
- the debate between empirism and idealism;
- the notion of critics (kantian, popperian, marxian, nitetzschean);
- positivism and neo-positivism;
- structuralism et systemism;
- phenoménology and hermeneutics;
- constructivism and mangement science.
. Critical analysis of different research programmes on organized and/or managerial action in economics and sociology;
. Access to a critical concept of "rationality", and identification of a "scientific object" in management studies.
Content and teaching methods
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)
Evaluation : présentation d'articles, travail écrit individuel (
Support : un portefeuille de lecture
Références : contenues dans le syllabus