TY  - CONF
TI  - Fifty Years of Irrelevance: The Wild Goose Chase of Management Science
AU  - Koskela, Lauri
AD  - Professor, School of the Built Environment, University of Salford; UK. Phone +44 161 2956378;  l.j.koskela@salford.ac.uk
ED  - Rooke, John
ED  - Dave, Bhargav
PY  - 2011
DA  - 2011/07/13
T2  - 19th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
C3  - 19th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
CY  - Lima, Peru
AB  - Modern management science has existed since 1959 when two reports (by Pierson and Gordon & Howell) on the future of business education were published in the US. At least since 1980, there has been a practically continuous, but somewhat fragmented discussion on the relevance of management research. Although many different proposals have been made to rectify the situation, the mainstream of management research seems to be relatively untroubled and unaffected by this widely sensed irrelevance. The paper aims at initial understanding of the reasons for this spectacular failure of (general) management research to reach relevant results in the period of 1960-2010. Two related questions are considered in more detail. How was the social science turn of management science in 1959 justified and achieved? Which correctives have been proposed for management research, up to now?
KW  - Management science
KW  - irrelevance
L1  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/1101/pdf
UR  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/1101
DB  - IGLC.net
LA  - English
N1  - Export date: 04 October 2026
ER  -