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

DOI10.1016/J.EJOR.2013.12.018zbMATH Open1305.00090OpenAlexW1980347833MaRDI QIDQ2256349FDOQ2256349

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

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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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