"IS MANAGEMENT SCIENCE" OR ART? WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM THIS MISUNDERSTANDING?

In classes and lectures of introduction to administration, when the question "What do you think: Is administration science or art?" is asked, the audience is always curious. We face here an interesting and discussion-stimulating dictum. This article has two goals: to disclose the question ambiguity - maybe one of the reasons for its survival - and from there, analyze how appropriate it is to discuss "scientificity" ill our knowledge system, an important question for academic routes in that area. For the first - more modest - goal, we will use language pragmatic and semantic analysis;for the second, concentrating most of the text, theories about science nature and the intended distinction between science and non-science. Evidences arise, then, that the dictum contains a misunderstanding.