Management as an object of research

Is management a scientific theory? To answer this question, the authors reflect on the genesis of management science. They try to explain why science of management is necessary, in the face of existing view that theories of management science are useless. In the second part of the article they deliberate what is science, what elements should form part of scientific theories, and what should be their features. The importance of scientific method in building scientific theories is stressed in the third part of the article. In conclusion the authors assure, that for management science the key is to clarify their scope and matters of research, to intensify the development of specific for them investigating methods, so that could be created great theories in the science of management with the purpose to increase their utility.