Rethinking the process of operational research and systems analysis
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Rethinking the process of operational research and systems analysis
(Frontiers of operational research and applied systems analysis, v. 2)(Pergamon international library of science, technology, engineering and social studies)
Pergamon Press, 1984
1st ed
- : hard
- : pbk
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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.
Table of Contents
- Future methodology based on past assumptions, J Kindler & I Kiss. S
- stems 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.
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