After OR: An agenda for postmodernism and poststructuralism in OR

After OR: An agenda for postmodernism and poststructuralism in OR

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Article ID: iaor19941261
Country: United Kingdom
Volume: 44
Issue: 9
Start Page Number: 867
End Page Number: 881
Publication Date: Sep 1993
Journal: Journal of the Operational Research Society
Authors: ,
Keywords: practice
Abstract:

Postmodernism and poststructuralism have only been mentioned in passing within this journal. There is much more to be said, and this paper aims to open up the debate, to begin to explore the vast terrain and to present one/some agenda/s for the future, introducing some of the ideas that have inspired O(u)R practice. The paper is in four episodes. The authors begin by exploring the differences between modernism and postmodernism and introducing some of the present sources (episode 1), moving on to the study of language through structuralism and into poststructuralism (episode 2). This section introduces some key concepts and approaches which they illustrate in a short case study (episode 3) of the language of Operational Research OR. The final section (episode 4) sketches in the outlines of the future agenda. A warning is in order for people unfamiliar with postmodernism: the terminologies and style may seem unusual and untraditional for the journal.

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