Management Science Disciplines Research Articles

Impacts of the discipline plan of National Natural Science Foundation of China on discipline development: Analysis and implications based on the bibliometrics-method

<p indent=0mm>The science departments of National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) carry out strategic research on discipline development every five years, and formulate discipline plans and several priority funding areas for the next five years. Then they successively release guidelines for Key Program and Major Program (K&M) projects to promote the development of priority funding areas. In order to understand the impacts of the discipline plan on discipline development, this study takes the discipline of management science and engineering during the 13th Five-Year Plan period as an example, and uses the approved K&M projects to represent the discipline plan, the General Programs, Young Scientists Fund, and Fund for Less Developed Regions (GY&L) projects to represent the individual thinking of general scholars, and the academic literature from representative international journals to represent the international frontiers and hot spots. This study uses the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) method, as well as high-frequency word analysis, and introduce a concept of fitting rate to analyze the relationship between NSFC projects during 2016 and 2020 and academic literatures during 2011 and 2020. The results show that NSFC projects have higher fitting rates with academic literature in the academic areas with more K&M projects funded than in those with fewer K&M projects funded, and the academic areas with higher fitting rates between K&M projects and academic literature usually have higher fitting rates between GY&L projects and academic literature. Furthermore, academic areas with higher fitting rates between NSFC projects and academic literature tend to have more projects of National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars and Excellent Young Scientists funded. Therefore, NSFC’s discipline plan has a profound, extensive and long-term impact on the discipline development. The impact goes from top to bottom, from points spreading to areas. It does not only determine the current distribution of priority areas, but also affects the potential distribution of young scientists in the future. Because the development paths of sciences have similarities, the conclusions of this study could also be useful to other disciplines. We should fully understand and make use of these advantages of the discipline plan to promote the development of academic areas to meet national requirements, and aim at key fundamental fields to accumulate young talents in advance.

Internet of Things and Other E-Solutions in Supply Chain Management May Generate Threats in the Energy Sector—The Quest for Preventive Measures

Energy firms are the beneficiaries and initiators of innovation, and energy investments are a crucial area of business activity that is specially protected in any country. This is no wonder, as energy security is the basis for the functioning of states and economies. The Internet of Things and Big Data create both new challenges and new threats. This study aimed to identify the potential threats and determine preventive measures, as well as to establish the agile principles related to energy firms’ logistics. The method of the narrative summary in combination with the literature searching method was used. Two conclusions emerged: first, research serves to develop the discipline of management science; second, the identification of risks associated with innovation serves practitioners. In addition, the study defined further research directions.

Bibliographic Measures of Top-Tier Finance, Information Systems, and Management Science Journals

Purpose: Faculty research is frequently the basis of pay, tenure, and promotion decisions in the university arena. Meanwhile, perceptions regarding the quantity and quality of the research produced by a faculty is often the basis of departmental, college, and university reputation. The journal in which research findings are published is often used to assess the overall research quality. In order to better benchmark journal quality, this report provides findings of a meticulous investigation of leading journals in the finance, information systems and management science disciplines. It examines four different citation-based measures of quality and four journal characteristics that are exogenous to the quality of any individual piece of research. In unison, these investigative paths provide a clearer understanding of journal quality across the business realm, and hence of the quality of research appearing in business journals. Design: This study assists in the development of an accurate perception regarding business research through a careful analysis of the popular Journal Citation Reports (JCR) impact factor across leading journals in three diverse business disciplines. By considering three newer journal quality metrics, a.) SCImago Journal Rank (SJR), b.) Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP), and c.) Percentage of articles cited, this research builds on past research. Top-tier journals in finance, information systems, and operations research and management science (referred to here as “management science ”) are compared to evaluate the consistency of these measures across disciplines. The differences in journal characteristics and their impact on the citation-rate based measures of quality are also analyzed. Further, the potential impact of a discipline-based variation in the acceptance rate, issue frequency, the time since journal inception, and total reviewers are put forth as additional potential exogenous factors that may influence the perception of the overall journal quality. T-tests are applied for discipline comparisons, while correlation and multiple regression are employed in the analysis of journal characteristics. Findings: There is a significant difference in the JCR impact measures of high-quality finance and management science journals versus high-quality information systems journals. However, only the JCR measures for finance journals correlate with a variety of journal-specific factors, including the journal's acceptance rate and frequency of issue. The SJR measures for finance and management science journals are, on the other hand, consistently higher than information systems journals, though the SJR value of any individual journal can be quite volatile. Most importantly, finance and management journals also report significant relations between the

Design and Implementation of SPOC Online Courses for Real Estate Investment and Financing

Real estate investment and financing is a very practical cross-course, which has very high requirements for students' preliminary knowledge. Since the real estate development and management major belongs to the first-level discipline of management science and engineering, students generally lack the knowledge of finance. How to allow students to systematically master the theoretical knowledge of real estate investment and financing within the limited class hours, and apply it to practice, has become an important issue for class teachers. By introducing the SPOC teaching model and carefully designing online and offline teaching content, it can not only improve the classroom teaching effect, but also cultivate students' autonomous learning ability. This article intends to systematically study the design and implementation of SPOC online courses in real estate investment and financing based on the new development trend of the real estate industry.

The Ability of Health Organizations to Change - Why do Change need a Process and Project Approach?

The aim of the article is both an attempt to identify the relationship between various disciplines of management sciences (change management, process management, project management) and a reference to the issue of their application and integration in healthcare organizations. It seems that this is a serious problem in the context of the inevitability of making changes in medical organizations, especially in the face of an ongoing pandemic (in a relatively short time). In addition, the ever-increasing complexity of healthcare organizations, while the pace of technological innovation in medicine. The article is a review - it integrates and interprets the current state of knowledge in the field of change management, process management and project management, indicating the need and possibilities of integration and symbiosis of various management sub-disciplines. It was developed primarily using critical literature analysis.

A Balance of Rigor and Relevance: Engaged Scholarship in Organizational Change

Organizations face increasing demand to make meaningful, sustainable changes based on shifts in their external environments. This presents an unprecedented opportunity for insightful, useful research in the field of organizational change. As in other management science disciplines, the field suffers from a gap between research-favoring rigor and practice-favoring relevance. Through the framework of engaged scholarship—a collaborative approach to knowledge production—we present organizational change research as particularly well-positioned to utilize existing gap-related tensions to advance the field in terms of effective academic- and practice-based outcomes. We highlight empirical efforts in organizational change applied research that have contributed to theory building, method development, and practice knowledge. We include interview data collected from scholar-practitioners in the field and focus on the work of W. Warner Burke, in particular, for this special issue honoring the legacy of his rigorous and relevant contributions to the science and practice of organizational change.

The Ability of Health Organizations to Change - Why do Change Need a Process and Project Approach?

The aim of the article is both an attempt to identify the relationship between various disciplines of management sciences (change management, process management, project management) and a reference to the issue of their application and integration in healthcare organizations. It seems that this is a serious problem in the context of the inevitability of making changes in medical organizations, especially in the face of an ongoing pandemic (in a relatively short time). In addition, the ever-increasing complexity of healthcare organizations, while the pace of technological innovation in medicine. The article is a review - it integrates and interprets the current state of knowledge in the field of change management, process management and project management, indicating the need and possibilities of integration and symbiosis of various management subdisciplines. It was developed primarily using critical literature analysis.

ESP Teaching Practices in Management Science at Post-Graduate Level in Pakistan: Perceptions of ESP Teachers and ESP Learners

English for Specific Purposes (ESP) teaching is considered a separate activity in the domain of English Language Teaching \cite{dudley1998developments}. ESP primarily aims to prepare and fulfill a set of the communicative needs of ESP learners in academic and professional contexts. These needs serve as a guide to design relevant course content and adopt appropriate teaching method with particular emphasis on the kind of English to be taught and the topics to be covered. The current study attempts to investigate through the perceptions of ESP teachers and ESP learners the effective role of subject matter specialists (henceforth SMSs) in the teaching of ESP courses at postgraduate level in Pakistan. The sample size taken for this study comprises of 10 ESP teachers selected through snowball sampling technique and 50 ESP learners chosen through purpose sampling from three different disciplines of management sciences. Open ended questionnaire and interviews were used for data collection. The data were thematically analyzed. The analysis of ESP teachers' data suggested English language competence, pedagogic competence and awareness of the learners' prospective communicative needs in academic and workplace contexts. The analysis of ESP learners' data indicated that subject matter specialists along with content area knowledge need to have good command of English language as well. From the comparative analyses of ESP teachers and ESP learners' data, this study concludes that for effective ESP teaching to any group of ESP learners, an ESP teacher irrespective of the academic background (ELTs or Subject Matter Specialists) needs to have English language competence, pedagogic skills and how much they know about the learners' target communicative needs.

The Process Approach to Manage Changes in the Organization

The aim of this article is both an attempt to identify the relationship between various disciplines of management sciences (change management, process management) and the reference to the issue of their integration. This seems to be a significant problem in the context of the inevitability of making changes in the organization (with a relatively fast pace), and still rising complexity of the organization, with at the same time decreasing of their operations recurrence. The article is a review − it integrates and interprets the current state of knowledge in the area of change management, processes management and projects management, pointing to the need and opportunities for integration/symbiosis of various sub-disciplines of management. It was developed primarily using the critical analysis of literature.

Study on Curriculum Resources Development for Project Management

Project management is the research object of the professional compulsory course of the full-time Science degree graduate students. The paper put forward a simple study on the management curriculum resources. First, we analyze the actual condition of the Project Management course of Wuhan University. And then, we propose some suggestions to develop some new curriculum resources. For example, we try to carry out practice-teaching, establish information databases of studying resources and add more academic discussions. Finally, we should manage to explore curriculum resources to provide better education that matches every individual characteristic. Connotation of Project Management Course Resources The meaning of management curriculum resources is divided into narrow sense and broad sense. And its broad sense is generally defined as the source and the necessary and direct implementation conditions of the factors that form the management Many researchers discuss the connotation and the extension of the curriculum resources from different aspects. Some think that curriculum resources refer to the summation of human, material resources and natural resources all of which can be exploited in the process of curriculum development through each link of the curriculum design, implementation and evaluation. Specifically, it includes teaching materials, all kinds of teaching facilities and practice base, etc. We can also summarize management curriculum resources from a macro point of view, namely project management curriculum resources is referred to the sum of all sorts of conditions which are of rich education value and able to be transformed for the school course or service for the school curriculum. Synthesis of all kinds of definitions about the curriculum resources, we can see the core of curriculum resources is the usefulness, and all conditions and environment that in favour of curriculum implementation and the realization of curriculum objectives can be viewed as curriculum resources. In our country, the course resources of different subjects are different, and we take the management course as an example to carry on the classification to the related curriculum resources. Project management course is a required course of management science and engineering, and it is a comprehensive discipline of management science, engineering technology, engineering economy, construction regulation and so on. As the main purpose of this course is to achieve the maximum comprehensive benefits of the project, so it attracts people's general attention in real life with a strong application and comprehensive. Combined with the existing form of curriculum resources, we divide management curriculum resources into human resources, material resources, and environmental resources. Human resources take teacher resources in management disciplines as the core and other managers with actual combat experience and the foreign scholars from outside as a complementary resource. At the same time, learners are an important part of the learning process, and therefore can be classified as part of the curriculum resources. Material resources, as the name suggests, are the physical form of resources, including the management materials, audio and video materials, tools, newspapers, magazines, television broadcasting, network, library, etc. Environmental resources in the management course mainly refer to the opportunities and places where students are able to carry out the management practice, which can also be included in the material resources from a broad perspective.

Evolution of managerial problems from the perspective of management science

Managerial problems and the process of their solving play an important role both in the theory of management science and practice of organisations’ functioning. There is a gap in the literature related to the evolution of management problems in the context of the methodological approaches to solve them. The main goal of this paper was to analyse the evolution of the managerial problems from the perspective of management science and to present dominant methodological approaches for problem solving. Based on the extensive literature analysis in the discipline of management science, the evolution of the managerial problems was described with relation to the sixteen streams of management science. The author reviewed the selected classifications of the management theory as well as proposed his own perspective, which took into account managerial problems and their evolution over time. Moreover, there was presented an attempt to depict sources of management problems from the historical perspective within the methodological approaches of management science. Despite the broad view on management problems presented in this paper, such perspective gives a good ground for developing new more specific problem classifications, addressing different facets of managerial problems.

Sustainable entrepreneurship through energy stewardship: role of values and behavioral patterns

In conditions of globalization, due the transformation of the information society to the knowledge society, changing technological and social circumstances, change not only the needs of consumers, but also can be observed structural changes in the management structure, economics and management science disciplines. Especially actual for business practitioners and researchers discourse becomes sustainable entrepreneurship through energy stewardship concept, which is associated with the ability to discover new opportunities for creation of economic and social value for consumers and the organization, country, region and the world. Under such circumstances it is important to identify the key factors of sustainable entrepreneurial through energy stewardship, because it is becoming one of the cornerstones of strategy of Europe in order to become the most competitive economy in the world. Scientists investigating the concept of sustainable entrepreneurship through energy stewardship and its components expose to the problem, which is more integrated approach that reflects the reality. The goal of article is to present the concept of sustainable entrepreneurship through energy stewardship and identify key success factors for sustainable entrepreneurship through energy stewardship in the global economy.

Towards More Case Study Research in Entrepreneurship

IntroductionInterest in entrepreneurship has been growing steadily in business schools, doctorate programs, and journal publications, raising the question of how research to advance the field is conducted. Theories on entrepreneurial processes and outcomes are drawn from a cross section of management science disciplines, including strategy, marketing, finance, operations, and

Towards More Case Study Research in Entrepreneurship

IntroductionInterest in entrepreneurship has been growing steadily in business schools, doctorate programs, and journal publications, raising the question of how research to advance the field is conducted. Theories on entrepreneurial processes and outcomes are drawn from a cross section of management science disciplines, including strategy, marketing, finance, operations, and

A Modest Proposal: How We might change the Process and Product of Managerial Research

The article focuses on possible changes in the discipline of management science, and how the methodology and presentation of its research might be improved. The main goals of management science scholars are to reach the level of influence enjoyed by the other social sciences, especially economics, in the real world applications of their disciplines and to have more effect on actual managerial practices. London Business School has created a management innovation laboratory to collaborate with businesses on the development of improved managerial practice, and this could serve as a model for others. The methodology of academic research and scholarly publishing operate in an entirely different time frame than actual management, a difficulty that may be impossible to fully overcome. An examination of articles previously published in this publication indicate that management scientists have too often shown a preference for theoretical discussion rather than the collection of information on actual management practices and their outcomes. The huge body of knowledge created by management science in the past 50 years, however, is more than capable of being transformed into real world applications of benefit to business and society.

No Longer a Stepchild: How the Management Field can Come into Its Own

The article presents an overview of the status of the discipline of management science. There are indications the field is thriving. Membership in the Academy of Management has nearly doubled from ...

Afterword: To the Next 50 Years

The author offers opinions on the articles published in this issue and on the future of the discipline of management science and its role in business education. A common theme of whether management...

Supply chain design curriculum: models and methods development

The primary purpose of this paper is to describe and illustrate the development of a framework related to proper design of a supply chain, emphasising a systemic approach to models and methods development as part of the operations management and decision sciences curriculum. The underlying premise of the suggested approach is to build an interface between theory, application, and tools and techniques relevant to the design of supply chain management systems. To this end, this approach integrates learning related to theoretical concepts from systems science, characterisation of applications utilising systems engineering, and tools and techniques from industrial engineering, operations research, and management science disciplines.

The paradigm of the science of management and of the management science disciplines

AbstractThis essay explores C. West Churchman's contributions to the development of the paradigm of the science of management and of management science. No other contemporary thinker has contributed more than Churchman to the elaboration of the management paradigm. In his unique way, and throughout his professional life, he has raised our level of consciousness concerning the unfinished business of the discipline. Given the eclectic nature of Churchman's mind, it would be impossible to do him justice and make a complete list of the methodological and epistemological issues that he has studied. In this essay, we illustrate the ideas that, to our mind, will have the greatest impact on the future direction of the discipline. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley &amp; Sons, Ltd.

Uncertainty in natural resource decision support systems: sources, interpretation, and importance

Decision support systems (DSS) have been defined as computer-based systems that integrate data sources with modeling and analytical tools; facilitate development, analysis, and ranking of alternatives; assist in management of uncertainty; and enhance overall problem comprehension. Of these capabilities, uncertainty assessment is the most poorly understood and implemented. Uncertainty assessment provides methodology to estimate the reliability of recommended alternatives, to place confidence intervals about the most likely outcome, or to quantify the likelihood of exceeding some environmental threshold. The extent to which this affects management decisions, and how it integrates with other management science disciplines such as risk assessment, remains largely unexplored territory. This paper briefly outlines sources of uncertainty in DSS, techniques for quantification, and then explores the relevance and importance of uncertainty in the larger decision-making context.