Critical rationalism in practice: Strategies to manage subjectivity in or investigations

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 235, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 784-797

  Ormerod, R J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Critical rationalism; Critical systems thinking; Philosophy of OR; Practice of OR

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894464923     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2013.12.018     Document Type: Article

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