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Soft Systems Methodology: A Context Within a 50-Year Retrospective of OR/MS

Author(s) -

Arnold Reisman,

Muhittin Oral

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

informs journal on applied analytics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.662

H-Index - 64

eISSN - 1526-551X

pISSN - 0092-2102

DOI - 10.1287/inte.1050.0129

Subject(s) - soft systems methodology , context (archaeology) , systems thinking , management science , sampling (signal processing) , computer science , epistemology , data science , engineering ethics , information system , engineering , artificial intelligence , management information systems , political science , geography , philosophy , law , archaeology , filter (signal processing) , computer vision

Soft systems methodology (SSM) has been used in the practice of operations research and management science OR/MS) since the early 1970s. In the 1990s, it emerged as a viable academic discipline. Unfortunately, its proponents consider SSM and traditional systems thinking to be mutually exclusive. Despite the differences claimed by SSM proponents between the two, they have been complementary. An extensive sampling of the OR/MS literature over its entire lifetime demonstrates the richness with which the non-SSM literature has been addressing the very same issues as does SSM

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