Critical rationalism in practice: strategies to manage subjectivity in OR investigations

DOI10.1016/J.EJOR.2013.12.018MaRDI QIDQ2256349zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Richard Ormerod

Publication date 19 February 2015

Published in European Journal of Operational Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2013.12.018

zbMATH Keywords

practice of ORcritical systems thinkingphilosophy of ORcritical rationalism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Operations research and management science (90Bxx) Philosophy of mathematics (00A30)

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