Critical rationalism in practice: strategies to manage subjectivity in OR investigations

DOI10.1016/j.ejor.2013.12.018zbMath1305.00090OpenAlexW1980347833MaRDI QIDQ2256349

Richard Ormerod

Publication date: 19 February 2015

Published in: European Journal of Operational Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2013.12.018

zbMATH Keywords

practice of ORphilosophy of ORcritical systems thinkingcritical rationalism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Operations research and management science (90Bxx)

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