Epistemology and didactics of management : the case of the concept of decision
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description: This research stems from two questions: 1) What is the impact on scientific knowledge in management when it leaves the theoretical field of study to become an object of teaching? 2) Regarding the concepts taught in management how is it possible to preserve the initial strength they had when they were first introduced in the scientific field? The general issue of the articulation between epistemology and didactics in management leads to implement an original methodology for analysing a management concept in five steps: analyse the concept through a common sense approach and representations, study its scientific meaning from the treatises and works of great authors, identify the treatment of the concept in the national curriculum, study school textbooks, investigate the epistemological obstacles which hinder pupils from constructing the concept. This methodology applies here to the concept of decision, a central concept in management, which is precisely analysed in this research, and to the way it is apprehended didactically with a view to teaching students attending technological courses. Exploring the national curriculum and school textbooks has shown that the concept of decision adapted for teaching purposes is a specific construct which was created by textbook writers, half way between common sense and scientific sense. It has been made clear that the epistemological knowledge of management concepts is not enough to preserve their original strength. However the problematization of management concepts and the didactic study of their conceptualization require an epistemological culture.
identifier: NNT: 2012CNAM0836
issued: 2026-05-14T21:56:04.375463
language: fr
modified: 2026-05-14T21:56:04.375468
contact point: Organization
  fn: CCSD
keyword: champ-conceptuel-dappartenance
keyword: common-sense
keyword: conceptualisation
keyword: conceptualization
keyword: decision
keyword: didactics
keyword: didactique
keyword: effet-de-seuil-didactique
keyword: epistemological-obstacle
keyword: epistemologie
keyword: epistemology
keyword: gestion
keyword: infoeu-reposemanticsdoctoralthesis
keyword: knowledge
keyword: management
keyword: manuels-scolaires
keyword: national-curriculum
keyword: obstacle-epistemologique
keyword: problematisation
keyword: problematization
keyword: programmes-scolaires
keyword: representations
keyword: savoir
keyword: scientific-sense
keyword: sens-commun
keyword: sens-scientifique
keyword: shsgestionhumanities-and-social-sciencesbusiness-administration
keyword: textbooks
keyword: theses
landing page: https://theses.hal.science/tel-00780674

Epistemology and didactics of management : the case of the concept of decision
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issued: 2026-05-14T21:56:04.380546
modified: 2026-05-14T21:56:04.310753
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