Background
Mattessich, Richard Victor Alvarus was born on August 9, 1922 in Trieste, Venezia-Julia, Italy. Son of Victor and Gertrude (Pfaundler) Mattessich.
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Instrumental Reasoning and Systems Methodology: an Epistemology of the Applied and Social Sciences (Theory and Decision Library)
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Instrumental Reasoning and Systems Methodology: An Epistemology of the Applied and Social Sciences (Theory and Decision Library)
(This book has been written primarily for the applied and ...)
This book has been written primarily for the applied and social scientist and student who longs for an integrated picture of the foundations on which his research must ultimately rest; but hopefully the book may also serve philosophers interested in applied disciplines and in systems methodology. If integration was the major motto, the need for a method ology, appropriate to the teleological peculiarities of all applied sciences, was the main impetus behind the conception of the present work. This need I felt a long time ago in my own area of analytical and empirical research in accounting theory and management science; later I had the opportunity to teach, for almost a decade, graduate seminars in Methodology which offered particular insight into the methodological needs of students of such applied disciplines as business administration, education, engineering, infor matics, etc. Out of this effort grew the present book which among other things tries, on one side, to illuminate the difference and relationship between methods of cognition and methods of decision and on the other, to sketch a framework suitable for depicting means-end relationships in a holistic setting. I believe that a systems methodology which incorporates recent endeavours of deontic logic, decision theory, information economics and related areas would be eminently suited to break the ground for such a future framework. Yet systems theory has two major shortcomings which might prevent it from evolving into the desired methodology of applied science.
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Richard Victor Alvarus Mattessich
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Education
Mechanic engineer, Engineering College, Vienna, Austria, 1940; Diplomkaufmann, Hochschule für Welthandel, Vienna, 1944; Doctor of Economics and Social Sciences, Hochschule für Welthandel, 1945; Accademico Ordinario, Accademia Italiana di Economia Aziendale, Bologna, since 1980; corresponding member, Austrian Academy Sciences, Vienna, since 1984; D honorary, U. Complutense, Madrid.
Career
Research fellow, Austrian Institute Economics Research, Vienna, 1945-1947;
instructor, Rosenberg College, St. Gallen, 1947-1952;
deputy head, Mount Allison U., Sackville, Canada, 1953-1959;
associate professor, University of California-Berkeley, 1958-1967;
professor economics, Ruhr U., Bochum, West Germany, 1966-1967;
professor industrial administration, U. Technology, Vienna, 1976-1978;
professor business administration, U. B.C., Vancouver, 1967-1987;
Arthur Andersen & Company Distinguished chair, U. B.C., Vancouver, 1980-1987;
professor emeritus, U. B.C., Vancouver, since 1988. Visiting professor Free U., Berlin, 1965, U. Social Sciences, St. Gallen, Switzerland, 1965-1966, U. Canterbury, 1970, Austrian Academy Management, 1971, 73. Member board nominations Accounting Hall of Fame, Columbus, Ohio, 1978-1987.
Board of Governors School Chartered Accountancy, Vancouver, 1981-1982. Board directors Canada Certified General Accts. Research Foundation, 1984-1990.
International advisory board Certified General Accountants Research Foundation, since 1993.
Achievements
Works
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Instrumental Reasoning and Systems Methodology: An Epistemology of the Applied and Social Sciences (Theory and Decision Library)
(This book has been written primarily for the applied and ...)
- Accounting and analytical methods: Measurement and projection of income and wealth in the micro- and macro-economy (Accounting classics series)
- Instrumental Reasoning and Systems Methodology: an Epistemology of the Applied and Social Sciences (Theory and Decision Library)
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Instrumental Reasoning and Systems Methodology: An Epistemology of the Applied and Social Sciences (Theory and Decision Library)
Membership
Secretary-treasurer International House, U. B.C., 1969-1970. Board directors Canada Certified General Accts. Research Foundation, 1984-1990.
Served to Lieutenant Organisation Todt., 1944-1945. Fellow Accademia Italiana di Economia Aziendale (accademico ordinario1980-). Member American Accounting Association (literature award 1972), Schmalenbach Gesellschaft, Verb. d.
Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft (executive advisory council 1976-1978), Institute Chartered Accts. of B.C. (board of Governors 1981-1982), Austrian Academy Sciences (correspondent), Academy Accounting Historians (life) (honorary professor Centro University Francesco de Vitoria, U. Madrid).
Connections
Married Hermine Auguste Mattessich, April 12, 1952.
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Nationality
Canadian
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Recipient Literature award AICPA, 1972, Haim Falk award Canada Academy Accounting Association, 1991;Ford Foundation fellow, 1961-1962. Distinguished Erskine fellow U. Canterbury, 1970. Killam senior fellow U. B.C., 1971-1972.Recipient Literature award AICPA, 1972, Haim Falk award Canada Academy Accounting Association, 1991;Ford Foundation fellow, 1961-1962. Distinguished Erskine fellow U. Canterbury, 1970. Killam senior fellow U. B.C., 1971-1972.