Should Knowledge Of Management Be Organized As Theories Or As Methods

The traditional scientific assumption is that knowledge should be organized in the form of theories. An alternative approach to organizing knowledge, emphasizing methods, was proposed by E.A. Singer, Jr. and advocated by two of his students, C. West Churchman and Russell Ackoff. In this paper, Stuart Umpleby expounds on the latter approach, arguing that organizing knowledge in the form of methods is appropriate in applied fields, particularly in management where a large part of the task is to achieve agreement among a group of knowing subjects on an appropriate set of actions.

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