The Harmony of Theory and Practice: The Engineering Science of W. J. M. Rankine

Channell, David F.

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“…Der Ingenieurhabitus lässt sich gemeinhin als "praxisorientierter Pragmatismus" beschreiben. Das Ideal für Ingenieure ist die Rolle des "guten Problemlösers" (Kornwachs, 2004) sowie eine "Harmonie zwischen Theorie und Praxis" (Channell, 1982).…”

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“…21 The "scientific part" of the epistemic base was inspired by the engine, and expanded a great deal between 1824 and 1850, as physicists in France, Britain, and Germany worked out the fundamental laws they called thermodynamics. 22 This epistemic base led in its turn to fundamental improvements in the utilization of steam power when William Rankine made the insights of thermodynamics available to engineers (Channell, 1982). 23 Once these laws were understood, it became clearer how to design internal combustion engines.…”

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Useful Knowledge as an Evolving System: The View from Economic History

Mokyr¹

2005

The Economy as an Evolving Complex System, III

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“…These theories are relatively closed and complete idealizations of cause-effect relationships between inputs and outputs in artefacts such as steam engines and electric light bulbs which generate design methodologies for engineers and offer an ideal of efficiency against which existing designs can be assessed (Channell, 1982;Reich, 1985, pp. 205-6).…”

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On the Nature of Managerial Tasks and Skills: Their Distinguishing Characteristics and Organization

Whitley

1989

J Management Studies

134

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Managerial activities have grown in importance as large corporations co-ordinate and control an increasing number and variety of economic activities. Their distinctive characteristics derive from their constitutive role in establishing, maintaining and changing such organizations as relatively distinct and semiautonomous units of resource combination and use. As a result, managerial tasks and problems are highly interdependent and systemic, relatively unstandardized, they combine both social reproduction and innovation and generate collective, indirect outputs. These characteristics mean that managerial skills differ considerably from other sorts of expertise in their limited standardization across industries, their susceptibility to change, their specificity to situations rather than problems and their diffuse, varied knowledge base. These differences imply management education and research should be more concerned with developing organizational skills and understandings than analytical skills derived from highly abstract and general models.

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The Harmony of Theory and Practice: The Engineering Science of W. J. M. Rankine

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Useful Knowledge as an Evolving System: The View from Economic History

On the Nature of Managerial Tasks and Skills: Their Distinguishing Characteristics and Organization

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