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Mehregan M R, Hosseinzadeh M. nvestigating the Development of Operations Research through the Lens of Kuhn’s Model of Scientific Development. EIJH 2012; 19 (4) :155-182
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This paper examines the historical development of Operations Research (OR) and represents different OR methods (methodologies) developed during its lifetime. Then, considering Thomas Kuhn’s paradigm model of scientific development as a basis for our work, the former and current status of OR are analyzed and the future trend is discussed.
Keywords: Operations Research Methodologies, Kuhn’s Paradigm Model, Hard OR, Soft OR, Critical OR, Postmodern OR, Philosophical Foundations of OR Approaches
Received: 2011/10/4 | Accepted: 2012/04/14 | Published: 2014/02/4
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