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Part of the book series: Contemporary Systems Thinking (CST)
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Community Operational Research: OR and Systems Thinking for Community Development sets out the current concerns of Community Operational Research (Community OR for short) and explores new possibilities for its continued development. Leading Community OR writers, with international reputations in operational research and systems thinking, have contributed chapters that illuminate different aspects of Community OR theory and practice. There is a focus on the value of systems approaches, and other significant perspectives are also represented. The result is a rich mix of theories, methodologies and case studies that will be a significant resource for both practitioners and academics engaged in community development.
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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An Introduction to Community Operational Research
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Early Contributions and Later Reflections on Theory, Methodology and Practice
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Local Action for Community Development
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Back Matter
Reviews
From the reviews:
`This is the book I have been waiting for. Community Operational Research has shown that analysis can be used not only for, but also with, community groups, helping them to gain more control of their situations. What Midgley and Ochoa-Arias' volume does is provide not only rich examples of grass-roots practice, but also thought-provoking theoretical explorations. The editors have a point of view, but they allow space for debate with those who interpret Community OR differently.'
Jonathan Rosenhead (Emeritus Professor of Operational Research, London School of Economics and Political Science; Ex-President of the Operational Research Society)
`...What the many authors in this book have in common is a commitment to serve the interests of all those affected by a community's behavior - its stakeholders. This is acquiring a new significance as we decreasingly conceptualize corporations and organizations in general as organisms, and begin to think of them, as Charles Handy has, as communities.'
Russell Ackoff (Professor Emeritus of the Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania; Ex-President of ORSA; Vice President of TIMS)
"The authors/editors have made a worthwhile contribution to the scant literature in a growing field. In particular, they should be commended for presenting illustrations of community projects in developing countries. … this book attests to the growing application of OR methods to community development … . I commend the authors for their effort." (JP van Gigch, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 58 (3), 2007)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Community Operational Research
Book Subtitle: OR and Systems Thinking for Community Development
Editors: Gerald Midgley, Alejandro Ochoa-Arias
Series Title: Contemporary Systems Thinking
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8911-6
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publisher 2004
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-48335-6Published: 15 June 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-4716-3Published: 18 September 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-8911-6Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 1568-2846
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 366
Topics: Sociology, general, Operations Research/Decision Theory, Human Geography, Social Sciences, general, Community and Environmental Psychology