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标题：Theoretical foundations of organizational problem solving methodologies in Operational Research
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作者：Ali Mohaghar ; Ahmad Jafarnejad ; Seyyed Hasan Ghodsipoor 等
期刊名称：Management Science Letters
印刷版ISSN：1923-9335
电子版ISSN：1923-9343
出版年度：2013
卷号：3
期号：6
页码：1833-1838
DOI：10.5267/j.msl.2013.04.026
出版社：Growing Science
摘要：Paradigms are some principles and assumptions, which define frameworks and research priorities in each discipline. Many believe that operational research (OR) is not a science and like many other sciences does not have any paradigm. However, since OR is committed to scientific methods, therefore it contains a methodological paradigm. The purpose of this paper is to consider theoretical methodologies in the field of OR. This paper performs a review on the existing literature based on interpretive hermeneutic approach. Based on literature review, the study determines four principles and assumptions for each OR paradigms and a classification of the methods are presented. The results show that OR has four main paradigms and there are many methods in OR fields to tackle a particular problem where each problem belongs to a particular paradigm. In addition, instead of using a particular method in problem situations, we can implement a combination of methodologies.
关键词：Paradigm; Operational Research; Soft Systems; Critical Paradigm; Mixed Methodology