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A Survey of Issues in the MS/OR Field
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Three decades of development in MS/OR have produced an extensive literature on issues in the field itself, such as, theory versus application, education, career paths, research, research topics, application guidelines and teamwork as discussed by the authors.Abstract:
Three decades of development in MS/OR have produced an extensive literature on issues in the field itself, such as, theory versus application, education, career paths, research, research topics, application guidelines and teamwork.read more
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The transformation of business finance into financial economics: The roles of academic expansion and changes in U.S. capital markets
TL;DR: The dominant characteristics of financial economics as an intellectual field and how these contextual factors shaped its emergence are discussed in this article, where the authors discuss the dominant characteristics and characteristics of finance as an academic field.
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Model legitimisation in operational research
TL;DR: It is suggested that model validation and model legitimisation are two overlapping but nevertheless distinct activities, and that it takes more than being valid for an OR model to be organizationally acceptable: it has to be legitimate.
The principles for scientific management
TL;DR: The Taylor System as mentioned in this paper was developed as a system for increasing productivity in industry, and its principles have been applied to all kinds of large-scale enterprises, including operations with departments and agencies of the federal government.
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A Model for a First MBA Course in Management Science/Operations Research
TL;DR: In this paper, the first MS/OR course in an MBA curriculum aims to prepare all students to be consumers of MS and OR and to motivate a few to take further courses to become producers.
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The Principles of Scientific Management
TL;DR: The Taylor System as discussed by the authors was developed as a system for increasing productivity in industry, and its principles have been applied to all kinds of large-scale enterprises, including operations with departments and agencies of the federal government.
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Rational choice and the structure of the environment.
TL;DR: A comparative examination of the models of adaptive behavior employed in psychology and economics shows that in almost all respects the latter postulate a much greater complexity in the choice mechanisms, and a much larger capacity in the organism for obtaining information and performing computations than do the former.
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The Future of Operational Research is Past
TL;DR: In this article, a detailed examination of the impacts of OR on its practice is made, including the dispersion of OR in organizations, the displacement of OR workers, and the dissolution of its interdisciplinarity.