"This book should be published since it is now available as a rich and critical book on managerial research and meets the needs of postgraduate students in management." Prof. John Burguin, Lancaster University

Is management a science? Can we trust what management research tells us about the "reality" of organizations?

This book claims that systematic research is not an effective resource for management knowledge. The value of management thoughts lies in the application of their management practices and measures.

With compiling the ideas associated with social theory, the theory of organization and applied philosophy provides the foundations, based on which we find out how and why management research, in spite of its constraints, can contribute to the development of practice.

Paul Griseri is an independent author and a part-time teacher in the field of management at University of London.