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Behavioral Operational Research

A Capabilities Approach

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Explores transformational processes that occur across different dimensions

  • Advances understanding of capabilities and competences and the interaction between the cognition of managers and organizational-level capabilities

  • Addresses the need for conceptualization and operationalization of the different aspects of the engagement process

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxii
  2. Competences Within Models

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Behavioral Implications of Demand Perception in Inventory Management

      • Dilek Önkal, AyÅŸe KocabıyıkoÄŸlu, M. Sinan Gönül, Celile Itır Göğüş
      Pages 23-40
  3. Capabilities Within Models

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 181-181
    2. Lessons Learned: Acquiring Insights from Non-Operational Research Perspectives

      • Hubert Korzilius, Pleun van Arensbergen
      Pages 237-260
    3. The Merits of Transparent Models

      • Konstantinos V. Katsikopoulos
      Pages 261-275
  4. Capabilities Beyond Models

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 277-277

About this book

This edited collection addresses the question of which capabilities and competencies enable Behavioral Operational Research to provide sustained improvement to decision processes. The aim is to show how a focus on capability and competency will not only meet short-term requirements for problem solving and decision support, but also build a solid foundation for the future. The contributors present recent advances in Behavioral OR, with a focus on the ways in which users of models deal with incomplete and imprecise information, subjective boundaries and uncertainty. These chapters are structured around three key dimensions of BOR: capabilities, cognition and aspects of practice.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

    Leroy White

  • Southampton Business School, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

    Martin Kunc

  • School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

    Katharina Burger

  • Applied Research, BT, Martlesham Heath, UK

    Jonathan Malpass

About the editors

Leroy White is Professor of Operational Research at the University of Warwick, UK. His main research interests are management science/operational research, problem structuring methods, social network analysis, strategic partnerships, large group decision-making.

Martin Kunc is Professor of Management Science, Southampton Business School, University of Southampton, UK. His interests are in behavioural decision making, system dynamics modelling and strategic management.

Katharina Burger is a Lecturer in the Operations and Management Science Group at the University of Bristol, UK. Her main research interests are sustainable urban transitions, participatory methods and theories of practice.

Jonathan Malpass is a Principal Researcher in the Behavioural, Organisational and System Science group at BT. His research focuses on the impact of change on both employees and customers.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Behavioral Operational Research

  • Book Subtitle: A Capabilities Approach

  • Editors: Leroy White, Martin Kunc, Katharina Burger, Jonathan Malpass

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25405-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-25404-9Published: 07 November 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-25407-0Published: 07 November 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-25405-6Published: 24 October 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXII, 379

  • Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Operations Research/Decision Theory, Operations Management

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