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Mohaghar, A., Jafarnejad, A., Ghodsipoor, S & Maleki, M. (2013). Theoretical foundations of organizational problem solving methodologies in Operational Research.Management Science Letters , 3(6), 1833-1838.
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methodologies. Omega, 25(5), 489–509.
Mingers, J. (2001). Combining IS research methods: towards a pluralist methodology. Information
systems research, 12(3), 240-259.
Munro, I., & Mingers, J. (2002). The use of multimethodology in practice-results of a survey of
practitioners. Journal of the operational research society, 369-378.
Mingers, J. (2003). A classification of the philosophical assumptions of management science
methods. Journal of the Operational Research Society,54(6), 559-570.
Mingers, J., & Rosenhead, J. (2004). Problem structuring methods in action. European Journal of
Operational Research, 152(3), 530-554.
Mingers, J., & White, L. (2010). A review if the recent contribution of systems thinking to
operational research and management science. European Journal of Operational Research, 207(3),
1147-1161.
Neuman, L. (2006). Social Research Methods: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches. 3rd ed.,
London: Allyn and Bacon
Paucar-Caceres, A. (2010). Mapping the changes in management science: A review of “soft” OR/MS.
Omega, 38, 46-56.
Pinkard, T. (2002). German Philosophy 1760-1860: The Legacy of Idealism. Cambridge University
Press.
Raitt, R. A. (1979). O.R. and science. Journal of Operations Research, 30, 835-836.
Taket, A. R., & White, L. (2000). Partnership and participation: decision-making in the multiagency
setting. Wiley.
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Research, 31(3), 276-283.
Ulrich, W. (2003). Beyond methodology choice: critical systems thinking as critically systemic
discourse. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 54(4), 325-342.
Van Manen, M. (1990). Researching lived experience: Human science for an action sensitive
pedagogy. Suny Press.