2.2.3 Community-oriented and empirical decision modeling
Research on the practice of OR is concerned with how it is used within
organizations, which may depend on the type of organization. Operations research
and management science have had a long history of applications to not-for-profit
organizations: government, military, and non-governmental organizations (see e.g.,
Pollock et al. 1994). A recent strand of research has emphasized the special nature
of methods designed to meet the needs of community-based organizations.
‘Community operational research’ (Midgley and Ochoa-Arias 2004), which has
its origins in the UK, is a mixed-method approach to problem identification,
structuring, solving and implementation that is intimately linked to the perspectives
and resources of local non-profit organizations. It tends to privilege qualitative and
inductive approaches to decision modeling in local contexts. Operations management
is the point of origin for a stream of research called ‘empirical operations
management’, in which special attention is paid to real-world experiences of
productions and operations management professionals in quantifying and solving
decision problems (Scudder and Hill 1998; Wacker 1998). Inasmuch as case study
and qualitative methods are embraced to generate and evaluate solutions in a
practice context, this field is also a promising antecedent to the present study.
2.2.3 Community-oriented and empirical decision modeling
Research on the practice of OR is concerned with how it is used within
organizations, which may depend on the type of organization. Operations research
and management science have had a long history of applications to not-for-profit
organizations: government, military, and non-governmental organizations (see e.g.,
Pollock et al. 1994). A recent strand of research has emphasized the special nature
of methods designed to meet the needs of community-based organizations.
‘Community operational research’ (Midgley and Ochoa-Arias 2004), which has
its origins in the UK, is a mixed-method approach to problem identification,
structuring, solving and implementation that is intimately linked to the perspectives
and resources of local non-profit organizations. It tends to privilege qualitative and
inductive approaches to decision modeling in local contexts. Operations management
is the point of origin for a stream of research called ‘empirical operations
management’, in which special attention is paid to real-world experiences of
productions and operations management professionals in quantifying and solving
decision problems (Scudder and Hill 1998; Wacker 1998). Inasmuch as case study
and qualitative methods are embraced to generate and evaluate solutions in a
practice context, this field is also a promising antecedent to the present study.
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