ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the origins of different philosophies of science in Aristotle's writings and presents the application and development of ideas in European learning centers. It discusses the instantiation of different modes of knowledge production in university-based business schools and management scholarship. The chapter defines by characterizing how, through collaborative management research and similar paradigms, the re-emergence of Aristotle's second, less-celebrated legacy offers a significant opportunity for management scholarship. Philosophers of science and eventually management scholars perpetuated the separation of theory from experience and practice on the basis of Popper's ideas. The chapter provides the evolution of management scholarship from its early practical orientation, to a focus on producing episteme theoretike in the mid-twentieth century and to methodological diversity and renewed interest in phronesis. Calls to close the gap between management scholarship and management practice have persisted for several decades.
