Rethinking the Process of Operational Research & Systems Analysis
- 1st Edition - June 29, 1984
- Latest edition
- Editors: R. Tomlinson, I. Kiss
- Language: English
Invited contributions from distinguished practitioners and methodologists of operational research and applied systems analysis which represent a true state-of-the-art and which… Read more
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Description
Description
Invited contributions from distinguished practitioners and methodologists of operational research and applied systems analysis which represent a true state-of-the-art and which provide, perhaps for the first time, a coherent, interlocking, set of ideas which may be considered the foundations of the subject as a science in its own right.
Readership
Readership
Of interest to operational research practitioners and teachers, and behavioural scientists.
Table of contents
Table of contents
Future methodology based on past assumptions, J Kindler & I Kiss. Systems approach and systems analysis, I V Blauberg et al. The deliberative context of systems analysis, H Boothroyd. Rethinking a systems approach, P Checkland. Thought and wisdom, C W Churchman. Policy analysis for advising rulers, Y Dror. Change in the paradigms of systems analysis, J Farkas. Current methodological problems of systems analysis and its application, O I Larichev. The craft of applied systems analysis, G Majone. If applied systems analysis is 'true', must it also be 'bad' and 'ugly'? I Mitroff. Organisational decision process and ORASA intervention, J Moscarola. Analysis of systems support - some ideas on improving systems analysis, G de Zeeuw. Rethinking the process of systems analysis and operational research: from practice to precept - and back again, R Tomlinson.
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: October 22, 2013
- Language: English
About the editor
About the editor
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R. Tomlinson
Affiliations and expertise
University of Warwick, Coventry, UKView book on ScienceDirect
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