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The Easy Chair: What Kinds of Papers Will Contribute to a Well-Rounded View of the Conditions and Craft of OR/MS Practice?

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  • Hugh J. Miser

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With an OR background of varied practice. I began my editorial career in operations research over three decades ago. Even then it was clear that readers of our journals wanted more of what were already being called applications papers. Note that this term appears to have conceded that the subject's center of attention was developing theory rather than exploring the phenomena that OR was undertaking to understand and explain. A balanced view of the subject should regard the two activities as inseparable partners: theory without an observational base is only an intellectual game; practice without adequate intellectual conceptions (that is, models) is mere management gamesmanship.

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  • Hugh J. Miser, 1998. "The Easy Chair: What Kinds of Papers Will Contribute to a Well-Rounded View of the Conditions and Craft of OR/MS Practice?," Interfaces, INFORMS, vol. 28(6), pages 63-70, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:orinte:v:28:y:1998:i:6:p:63-70
    DOI: 10.1287/inte.28.6.63
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    1. Hugh J. Miser, 1998. "The Easy Chair: Judging Effectiveness of Work in OR/MS Practice and Claiming Credit for Its Consequences," Interfaces, INFORMS, vol. 28(4), pages 31-37, August.
    2. Hugh J. Miser, 1997. "The Easy Chair: Is It Possible to Have a Good Definitional Description of Operations Research and Management Science?," Interfaces, INFORMS, vol. 27(6), pages 16-21, December.
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    1. E K Doyle & C-G Lee & D I Cho, 2009. "Justification for the next generation of maintenance modelling techniques," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 60(4), pages 461-470, April.

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