Operational Research and the Social Sciences

S.A. Cropper, Michael C. Jackson, Paul Keys (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

723 Seiten

2013 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1989
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4612-8083-5 (ISBN)

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Twenty five years ago, in 1964, The Operational Research Society's first International Conference (held at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge) took as its theme "Operational Research and the Social Sciences". The Conference sessions were organised around topics such as: Organisations and Control; Social Effects of Policies; Conflict Resolution; The Systems Concept; Models, Decisions and Operational Research. An examination of the published proceedings (J.R.Lawrence ed., 1966, Operational Research and the Social Sciences, Tavistock, London) reveals a distinct contrast between the types of contribution made by the representatives of the two academic communities involved. Nevertheless, the Conference served to break down some barriers, largely of ignorance about the objects, methods and findings of each concern. In the ensuing twenty five years, although debate has continued about the relationship between OR and the social sciences, mutual understanding has proved more difficult to achieve than many must have hoped for in 1964.

O.R. and the Social Sciences Plenary Sessions.- O.R. as a Social Science.- Methodology.- Systems and O.R..- Intervention and Change.- Design and Planning.- Information Systems.- Problems of Measurement.- Modelling Social Behaviour.- Power, Conflict and Control.- O.R. and the Decision Maker.- Work.- Post-Industrial Society.- Author Index.

Zusatzinfo	6 Illustrations, black and white; XVIII, 723 p. 6 illus.
Verlagsort	New York, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 244 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
ISBN-10	1-4612-8083-4 / 1461280834
ISBN-13	978-1-4612-8083-5 / 9781461280835
Zustand	Neuware