In the present article the logical structure of applied social sciences will be discussed. Applied sciences don't regard causes and effects but only means and ends. Therefore the logical structure of means-end-argumentations in social sciences will be shown. One can perceive also the important part of normative statements. In summarizing, we can declare that in social sciences thererigpartly a need to reflect on the postulate of a value-free social science. But it is not our purpose to introduce normative statements as scientific ones. What counts is a liberal attitude towards all realizable norms.
1. STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
Probably no other perspective of German philosophy of science has found such a great resonance in the field of applied social science than the programmatical concept of the so-called "tautological transformation of empirical laws in technological hypotheses" going back to Hans Albert 1 . Above all, they are basically oriented studies in economics, business science, and business administration, which are all engaged in adopting this concept of the philosophy of science. Although this idea is superficially well-known there still exist various misconceptions.
Therefore the main task of this study is to inform the English and American reader, to report on some ideas of Hans Albert, to give a precise formulation of the above mentioned metatheoretical concept and to present subsequently a critical analysis of the 'technological transformation', in an abstract way and as applied in business administration.
2. TECHNOLOGY MODEL
If there exists a (physical or social) law (nomological statement), it can be changed 2 into a technological hypothesis or -speaking move precisely with Albert -the law can be transformed via a tautological operation in such a hypothesis. The transformation takes place by replacing the cause-effect