Evaluating soft OR: some reflections on an apparently ‘unsuccessful’ implementation using a Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) based approach

DOI10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601054zbMath1131.90301OpenAlexW2039168756MaRDI QIDQ4658392

N. A. D. Connell

Publication date: 16 March 2005

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601054

zbMATH Keywords

soft OROR practicesoft systems methodologysystems evaluation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational methods for problems pertaining to operations research and mathematical programming (90-08)

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