Using the theory of constraints thinking processes to complement system dynamics' causal loop diagrams in developing fundamental solutions

DOI10.1111/J.1475-3995.2006.00532.XMaRDI QIDQ5488244zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 14 September 2006

Published in International Transactions in Operational Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-3995.2006.00532.x

zbMATH Keywords

TOCsystemssystem dynamicssoft ORmulti-methodologytheory of constraintsthinking processescausal loop diagramclassification frameworksOR/MS

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Management decision making, including multiple objectives (90B50)

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• A classification of the philosophical assumptions of management science methods

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