Boundary games: How teams of or practitioners explore the boundaries of intervention

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 249, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 968-982

  Velez Castiblanco, Jorge ^a   Brocklesby, John ^b   Midgley, Gerald ^b,c,d,e,f  

^a UNIVERSIDAD EAFIT   (Colombia)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^d MÄLARDALEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^f UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Behavioural OR; Boundary games; Critical systems thinking; Multimethodology; Process of OR

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY;

BEHAVIOURAL OR; BOUNDARY GAMES; CRITICAL SYSTEMS THINKING; MULTIMETHODOLOGY; PROCESS OF OR;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 84945571207     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2015.08.006     Document Type: Article

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