Process and content: Two ways of using SSM

Journal of the Operational Research Society

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1435-1441

  Checkland, P ^a   Winter, M ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Intervention; Methodology; Praxis; Process; SSM

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; PROCESS CONTROL; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

INTERVENTION; METHODOLOGY; PRAXIS; SSM;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 33751082911     PISSN: 01605682     EISSN: 14769360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602118     Document Type: Article

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