Reisman, Arnold and Oral, Muhittin (2005) Soft systems methodology: a context within a 50-year retrospective of OR/MS. Interfaces, 35 (2). pp. 164-178. ISSN 0092-2102
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Abstract
Soft systems methodology (SSM) has been used in the practice of operations research and management science OR/MS) since the early 1970s. In the 1990s, it emerged as a viable academic discipline. Unfortunately, its proponents consider SSM and traditional systems thinking to be mutually exclusive. Despite the differences claimed by SSM proponents between the two, they have been complementary. An extensive sampling of the OR/MS literature over its entire lifetime demonstrates the richness with which the non-SSM literature has been addressing the very same issues as does SSM.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | professional: comments on; philosophy of modeling |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor |
| Divisions: | Sabancı Business School Sabancı Business School > Operations Management and Information Systems |
| Depositing User: | Muhittin Oral |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Feb 2006 02:00 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Apr 2022 07:58 |
| URI: | https://research.sabanciuniv.edu/id/eprint/2 |
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