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Soft Operational Research (OR)

Created 27 May 2021| Updated 28 May 2021 | 12 articles

This article collection has been curated to highlight the growth and value of soft OR, and how even hard OR contains soft elements. JORS publishes a wide range of OR topics and is keen to encourage excellent contributions in the following topics: practice of OR, problem structuring methods, systems thinking, strategic planning, system dynamics, simulation and behavioural OR.

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The development of management sciences/operational research discourses: surveying the trends in the US and the UK
A Paucar-Caceres

Originally published in Journal of the Operational Research Society, Volume: 62, Number: 8 (01 Aug 2011)

Published online: 21 Dec 2017
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Resurrecting the Future of Operational Research
Russell L. Ackoff

Originally published in Journal of the Operational Research Society, Volume: 30, Number: 3 (01 Mar 1979)

Published online: 20 Dec 2017
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Planning under Uncertainty: II. A Methodology for Robustness Analysis
Jonathan Rosenhead

Originally published in Journal of the Operational Research Society, Volume: 31, Number: 4 (01 Apr 1980)

Published online: 20 Dec 2017
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O.R. and the Systems Movement: Mappings and Conflicts
Peter Checkland

Originally published in Journal of the Operational Research Society, Volume: 34, Number: 8 (01 Aug 1983) Systems in O.R. First International IFORS and O.R.S. Meeting. Discussion Conference at Henly, U.K. 9-11 May 1983

Published online: 20 Dec 2017
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The Viable System Model: Its Provenance, Development, Methodology and Pathology
Stafford Beer

Originally published in Journal of the Operational Research Society, Volume: 35, Number: 1 (01 Jan 1984)

Published online: 20 Dec 2017
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From Optimizing to Learning: A Development of Systems Thinking for the 1990s
Peter Checkland

Originally published in Journal of the Operational Research Society, Volume: 36, Number: 9 (01 Sep 1985) Systems Thinking in Action. Conference at Henly. April 1985

Published online: 20 Dec 2017
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Achieving ‘Desirable and Feasible’ Change: An Application of Soft Systems Methodology
Peter Checkland

Originally published in Journal of the Operational Research Society, Volume: 36, Number: 9 (01 Sep 1985) Systems Thinking in Action. Conference at Henly. April 1985

Published online: 20 Dec 2017
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Systems and Scholarship: The Need to Do Better
Peter Checkland

Originally published in Journal of the Operational Research Society, Volume: 43, Number: 11 (01 Nov 1992)

Published online: 20 Dec 2017
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Into the Swamp: The Analysis of Social Issues
Jonathan Rosenhead

Originally published in Journal of the Operational Research Society, Volume: 43, Number: 4 (01 Apr 1992)

Published online: 20 Dec 2017
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Review Article
The Use of Soft Systems Methodology in Practice
John Mingers & Sarah Taylor

Originally published in Journal of the Operational Research Society, Volume: 43, Number: 4 (01 Apr 1992)

Published online: 20 Dec 2017
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What has Cybernetics to do with Operational Research?
Stafford Beer

Originally published in Journal of the Operational Research Society, Volume: 10, Number: 1 (01 Mar 1959)

Published online: 19 Dec 2017
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The Social Responsibility of Operational Research
Russell L. Ackoff

Originally published in Journal of the Operational Research Society, Volume: 25, Number: 3 (01 Sep 1974)

Published online: 19 Dec 2017
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