Titlebook: Operational Research and the Social Sciences; M. C. Jackson,P. Keys,S. A. Cropper Book 1989 Springer Science+Business Media New York 1989

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Or as a Problem Situation: From Soft Systems Methodology to Critical Scienceckson and Keys, 1987). Whereas problems were thought to exist out there, in the world, a growing number of OR academics and practitioners now believe that traditional, ’hard’ OR is itself as much a source of problems as it is a means of resolving them. Specifically, it has been suggested that these

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Critical Heuristics of Social Systems Designjustification’. Epistemologists such as Karl R. Popper (1961, 1968, 1972) have claimed that the context in which science is applied is relatively irrelevant for the justification of its propositions. In distinction to this position, I propose to understand — and indeed define — applied science as th

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OR : Social Science or Barbarism status of conjectures. But there are certain preconditions before one can even develop and support plausible conjectures. One is a clarification of concepts — without which general confusion can all too easily prevail. Another is that conjectures about the future need to be firmly based on an analy

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Operational Research as a Social Science operational research as a social science but rather showed a concern for showing how operational research may be used as a form of applied social science (Lawrence, 1966). It is a sign of growing self-awareness that this second conference sees the notion of operational research as a social science

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Social Sciences for O.R. — An Overview in the field. From this overview it will then be seen to what extent the different social sciences are relevant for the different kinds of OR. Some kinds of OR will appear as a more or less conventional social science, others will appear using the social sciences.

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O.R. Images in Organisation Theory: A Critique Yet there is an important distinction to be drawn amongst all the potential descriptive accounts. Phenomenological descriptions are common sense accounts of the observable phenomena of the world, while scientific descriptions deny (or transcend) these phenomenological accounts in the name of (usual

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O.R. — Technologyrch, etc. In this paper we introduce a new dimension in these discussions about O.R. epistemology, we conceptualize O.R. as technology. This short paper outlines some of the main conclusions of a forthcoming report: An assessment of O.R.-technology and the practice of O.R. with social responsability