Opportunities and pitfalls for ethical analysis in operations research and the management sciences

Omega

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1121-1131

  Picavet, Emmanuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON SORBONNE   (France)

Author keywords

Business policy; Decision making process; Group decisions; Philosophy of OR

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; PUBLIC POLICY;

BUSINESS POLICIES; DECISION-MAKING PROCESS; GROUP DECISION; OPERATION RESEARCH; PHILOSOPHY OF OPERATION RESEARCH; RELEVANCE CRITERIA; RESEARCH MANAGEMENT; SCIENTIFIC MODELING; SOCIAL CONTEXT; SOCIAL PRACTICES;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 62749136152     PISSN: 03050483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.omega.2008.12.002     Document Type: Article

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