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Philosophy and Methodology of the Social Sciences
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The focus in these pages is on what the modem management, decision and system sciences can do to assist higher management authorities. For it is they who are generally charged with the responsiblity for ensuring the overall strategic 'readiness' of the organizations they serve...this a measure of the extent to which an organization is prepared to respond --in both a proper and timely way-- to whatever opportunities and perils the world may hold in store. Here then is the essence of the strategic management challenge. And here also is the core of the problem for these pages. For as things now stand, science has a great deal less to offer strategic decision-makers than it does their subordinates at the middle-echelon or line levels of entetprise.
This is just another way of saying that all of us, practitioners, professionals and academics alike, are better prepared to handle tactical or operational challenges than strategic issues. The clearest evidence of this is that the repertoire of currently available decision support instruments is still monopol1zed by quantitative techniques that simply cannot comprehend the essentially conceptual or 'notional' matters that are the stuff of true strategic decision exercises. We might choose to pretend otherwise. But the absolute, unarguable fact of modem managerial life is this grand paradox
JOHN W. SUTHERLAND - Personal Name
1st Edtion
3: 978-94-009-0953-3
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Philosophy and Methodology of the Social Sciences
Management
English
KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS
1989
USA
1-307
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