O.R. and the Systems Movement: Mappings and Conflicts
作者:
ChecklandPeter,
期刊:
Journal of the Operational Research Society
(Taylor Available online 1983)
卷期:
Volume 34,
issue 8
页码: 661-675
ISSN:0160-5682
年代: 1983
DOI:10.1057/jors.1983.160
出版商: Taylor&Francis
关键词: methodology;management;philosophy;systems theory
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
AbstractThe‘crisis’debate in O.R. expresses concern at the divergence between textbook O.R. and what practitioners actually do. The debate is examined by comparing O.R., systems analysis and systems engineering. They are all wedded to logic in situations in which logic may not be paramount. The science in O.R. applies only to aggregate results, but the practitioner must deal with a specific situation. The tradition of systems thinking which emerged from organismic biology is described. It leads to a way out of the O.R.‘crisis’, by providing a formal structuring of a paradigm of learning rather than optimization. O.R. can aspire to match natural science, and pass the problems by; or it can close the textbook/practitioner gap by changing its concept of‘being scientific’.
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