Insights into the eldercare conundrum through complementary lenses of Boardman's SSM and TOC's Evaporating Cloud

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 248, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 286-300

  Sommer, Kim A ^a   Mabin, Victoria J ^b  

^a STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Aged care eldercare residential care; Boardman Soft Systems Methodology, BSSM; Multi methodology; Problem structuring methodology (PSM); Theory of Constraints, TOC

Indexed keywords

AGED CARE; BOARDMAN SOFT SYSTEMS METHODOLOGIES; MULTI-METHODOLOGY; PROBLEM STRUCTURING; THEORY OF CONSTRAINT;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 84940895008     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2015.06.033     Document Type: Article

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