During this year I have started a new subject called Business Management based on the role of business and the basic functions of itself like human resources, finance and accounts, marketing and operations management.
In order to catalogue this subject as an art or a science it is important to mentioned the different between these two concepts. Both of them are consider main areas of knowledge, meaning that through them we can obtain real information that can help us to understand new ideas.
The arts are consider a type of a quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance.
On the other hand, the sciences are consider branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of facts or truths systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws like mathematics or physics formulas.
A business is usually defined as a occupation, job or enterprise that purchases sales of good and services in order to make a profit.
As we can see from the definition of what a science a business will certainly be a science because studies a series of facts and truths that systematically arranged such as the behaviour of leaders, managers, outputs or inputs and so on..
A counter argument that could demonstrate that business is not consider a science is that in some occasion, business men use this method to sell or buy within using methods that could be seen as art.
In this case, the business will be standing for a form of quality production that is expressed through certain beautiful patterns and in some cases people agree that business are considered a form of type.
As a conclusion, I agree that business are a form of science because the area that studies facts and concepts is bigger and much more efficient and important that the area that explores the patters and the artistic part.
Bibliography:
- http://www.theoryofknowledge.net/areas-of-knowledge/the-arts/
- http://www.theoryofknowledge.net/areas-of-knowledge/the-arts/knowledge-framework-for-the-arts/
- http://www.pamojaeducation.com/tok-in-business-and-management/
- http://www.wordreference.com/es/
Sources of reference:
- Arts as a way of knowing in the presentation
- Business Management Ib guide
ToK Journal IB Bilingual 2016 
Hi Socorro,
This is an interesting post as it seems to put two very different areas of knowledge in opposition to fight over which “owns” business.
Perhaps it makes more sense to think of the areas of knowledge as different methods instead of the knowledge that they produce. If you consider them as methods then business people may sometimes perform “experiments” like a scientist and other times behave in a much less systematic and free way like an artist and still achieve success.
4. The post uses ToK terminology successfully with strong links to ToK content and contains a KQ
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