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Soft Systems Methodology: A Context Within a 50-Year Retrospective of OR/MS

Year: 2005

Type: article

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.

Source: INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics

DOI: 10.1287/inte.1050.0129

Authors: Arnold Reisman, Muhittin Oral

Institution: Sabancı Üniversitesi

Language: English

Topic: Complex Systems and Decision Making

Subfield: Management Science and Operations Research

Field: Decision Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: Division of Graduate Education

OpenAlex ID: W2170962880

FWCI: 1.059

Cites: 138

Cited by: 34

Related to: 10