Foundations of Management

Foundations of Management (FoM) journal was established at the Faculty of Management at Warsaw University of Technology in order to provide an international platform of thought and scientific concepts exchange in the field of managerial sciences. This new publishing forum aims at the construction of synergic relations between the two parallel trends in managerial sciences: social and economical – originating from economic universities and academies and the engineering trend – originating in factories and technical universities.

Three of the great representatives of the engineering trend in managerial sciences ‐ American Frederic W. Taylor (1856‐1915) ‐ developer of high speed steel technology and the founder of the technical with physiological trend in scientific management, Frenchman Henri Fayol (1841‐1925), the author of basics of management and the division and concentration of work as well as the Pole Karol Adamiecki (1866-1933) graduate of the Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University and the professor of Warsaw University of Technology, creator of the timescale system elements scheduling theory and diagrammatic method as well as the basics of the division of work and specialization – have, on the break of the XIX and XX century, all created the universal foundations of the management sciences. Therefore the title of the Foundations of Management is the origin of the scientific and educational message of the journal that is aimed at young scientists and practitioners – graduates of technical and economic universities working in different parts of Europe and World.

The target of the establishers of the Foundations of Management journal is that it will gradually increase its influence over the subjects directly linked with the issues of manufacturing and servicing enterprises. Preferred topics concern mainly: organizational issues, informational and technological innovations, production development, financial, economical and quality issues, safety, knowledge and working environment – both in the internal understanding the idea of the sustainable enterprise as well as its business environment.

Dear Readers, Authors and Editors of the Foundations of Management – our wish is the interdisciplinary perception and interpretation of economic phenomena that accompany the managers and enterprises in their daily work, in order to make them more efficient, safe and economic for suppliers and receivers of the products and services in the global world of technological innovation, domination of knowledge, changes of the value of money and constant market game between demand and supply, future and past.

We would like for the Foundations of Management International Journal to promote innovative scientific thought in the classical approach towards economic and engineering vision of the managerial sciences.

The Guardian of the journal’s mission is its Scientific and Editorial Advisor Board, participants of which will adapt to current trends and as an answer to the changing economic and social challenges in the integrating Europe and World.