NDLI: Management Sciences/Operational Research Units in Business and Management Courses in the UK

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Author	Paucar Caceres, Alberto Paga, Rosane
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	The paper reviews the development of management science/operational Research (MS/OR) in management education and explore how far the syllabuses of undergraduate business courses and MBA courses in the UK, are giving space to the teaching of management sciences methodologies (MSM). The academic phase of early MS/OR is outlined and a time-based framework to map the evolution of four MS/OR discourses informing a set of MSMs currently in use is advanced. At an undergraduate level the review is based on a sample taken from Universities and Colleges Admissions Services (UCAS) of business and management studies degrees and at a postgraduate level the review considers a sample of MBA programmes offered by six UK universities. Results indicate that most of the MBA courses include a core unit in quantitative methods in the first year and that universities are still at large teaching the ‘hard’ end of the MSM spectrum, the type of problem solving methods developed in the 1950s and 1960s. Business courses incorporating units containing systemic thinking and management sciences methodologies developed from the 1970s to now (e.g.: soft systems methodology, viable systems model, cognitive mapping), are rarely taught at undergraduate (UG) level; and at post-graduate (PG) level they have been confined to a handful of institutions in the UK. The paper highlights the fact that MSMs associated with the soft and critical end of the spectrum are still lacking of credibility amongst the designers of management education at both undergraduate and graduate management education. Conclusions from the survey results are drawn and an agenda for further research is proposed.
Starting Page	379
Ending Page	395
Page Count	17
File Format	PDF
ISSN	1094429X
Journal	Systemic Practice and Action Research
Volume Number	24
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	15739295
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2010-12-17
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Management science Survey Quantitative methods Soft systems Hard systems Management education Operational research Methodology of the Social Sciences Sociology Business/Management Science Organization/Planning
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Strategy and Management Management of Technology and Innovation

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