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Analiza krytyczna jako metoda poznawania prawdy w naukach o zarządzaniu
The critical analysis as the method for finding the truth in management sciences

Author(s): Waldemar Walczak
Subject(s): Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life
Published by: Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie, Fundacja Promocji i Akredytacji Kierunków Ekonomicznych
Keywords: critical analysis; management sciences

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the article is discussing the nature of critical analysis in management sciences in the context of system approach to organization, as a method giving closer view enabling to find the truth about examined problems, phenomena and processes. Important meaning for the development of management sciences has a thorough observation of social-economic reality, which should concentrate on recognizing cause-and-effect dependences between diagnosed facts, paying the special attention to clarifying real motives as well as the consequence of making managerial decisions. Taking into considerations these facts, the article presented the aims and fundamental assumptions of the critical analysis as a research method. Simultaneously, the author underlined its virtues, as well as defects. A crucial element of conducted deliberations is author's model which is stressing chosen problem issues associated with functioning organization for needs of critical analysis in management studies. The presented model is contributing to eliminate divergences which appears between a scientific theory and the management practice.

  • Issue Year: 58/2015
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 22-32
  • Page Count: 11
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