Michael P Johnson
Emerging trends and new frontiers in community operational research
Johnson, Michael P; Midgley, Gerald; Chichirau, George
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Abstract
Community Operational Research (Community OR), and its disciplinary relation, Community-Based Operations Research, has an increasingly high profile within multiple domains that benefit from empirical and analytic approaches to problem solving. These domains are primarily concentrated within nonprofit services and local development. However, there are many other disciplines and application areas for which novel applications and extensions of Community OR could generate valuable insights. This paper identifies a number of these, distinguishing between 'emerging trends' (mostly in well-studied areas of operational research, management science and analytics) and 'new frontiers', which can be found in traditions not commonly oriented towards empirical and analytic methods for problem solving, where community-engaged decision modeling represents new ways of generating knowledge, policies and prescriptions. This paper will show how the exploration of emerging trends and new frontiers in Community OR can provide a basis for the development of innovative research agendas that can broaden the scope and impact of the decision sciences.
Citation
Johnson, M. P., Midgley, G., & Chichirau, G. (2018). Emerging trends and new frontiers in community operational research. European journal of operational research, 268(3), 1178-1191. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2017.11.032
Acceptance Date | Nov 15, 2017 |
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Online Publication Date | Nov 22, 2017 |
Publication Date | Aug 1, 2018 |
Deposit Date | Feb 6, 2018 |
Publicly Available Date | Feb 6, 2018 |
Journal | European journal of operational research |
Print ISSN | 0377-2217 |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 268 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 1178-1191 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2017.11.032 |
Keywords | Community operational research; Community-based operations research; Analytics; Developing countries; Systems thinking |
Public URL | https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/475100 |
Publisher URL | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0377221717310433?via%3Dihub |
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