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O.R. has been conceptualized in different ways: as a scientific activity, as a craft, as a social process,as an ideology, as management’s action research, etc. In this paper we introduce a new dimension in these discussions about O.R. epistemology, we conceptualize O.R. as technology. This short paper outlines some of the main conclusions of a forthcoming report: An assessment of O.R.-technology and the practice of O.R. with social responsability, where a complete list of references is also available.
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Vidal, R.V.V. (1989). O.R. — Technology. In: Jackson, M.C., Keys, P., Cropper, S.A. (eds) Operational Research and the Social Sciences. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0789-1_16
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