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Operations Research and Project Management Past, Present and Future

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Dimensions of Project Management

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In project management the large number of publications about operation research topics contrast to the small number of real applications. The author analyzes the reasons of the poor acceptance and the implementation gap and makes some suggestions to bridge this gap. A closer cooperation between software developers, operations research experts and users and new methodical approaches are demanded.

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  1. Fachhochschule Munich, Munich, Germany

    Hasso Reschke (Professor of Business Administration) (Professor of Business Administration)

  2. University of the German Federal Armed Forces, Munich, Germany

    Heinz Schelle (Professor of Business Administration and Project Management) (Professor of Business Administration and Project Management)

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Schelle, H. (1990). Operations Research and Project Management Past, Present and Future. In: Reschke, H., Schelle, H. (eds) Dimensions of Project Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-49344-7_11

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