The use of multimethodology in practice-results of a survey of practitioners

The use of multimethodology in practice-results of a survey of practitioners

There is now a vast range of techniques and methodologies, both hard and soft, available to the OR/MS practitioner. After a period of concern about methodology choice, ie 'which method when', we are now moving towards a pluralistic approach of combining together several methods within an i...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Journal of the Operational Research Society 2002-04, Vol.53 (4), p.369-378
Hauptverfasser: Munro, I, Mingers, J
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Applied sciences
Business and Management
Cognitive models
Exact sciences and technology
Forecasting models
Management
Mathematical models
Mathematics
methodology
Methods
Modeling
multimethodology
Operating rooms
operational research
Operational research and scientific management
Operational research. Management science
Operations research
Operations Research/Decision Theory
Original Article
Polls & surveys
practice
Questionnaires
Simulations
Statistics
systems
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Zusammenfassung:There is now a vast range of techniques and methodologies, both hard and soft, available to the OR/MS practitioner. After a period of concern about methodology choice, ie 'which method when', we are now moving towards a pluralistic approach of combining together several methods within an intervention-multimethodology. This paper reports on a survey of OR/MS practitioners to discover the extent of multimethodology usage and which particular combinations are most commonly utilised.
ISSN:0160-5682
1476-9360
DOI:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601331