Article ID: | iaor19951180 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 16 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page Number: | 242 |
End Page Number: | 245 |
Publication Date: | Aug 1994 |
Journal: | Systemist |
Authors: | Probert S.K. |
Keywords: | post-modernism |
The subject of postmodernism and its relationship with Operational Research (OR) and/or systems thinking is of immense importance. This paper focuses on systems issues, and discusses two issues where postmodernism and poststructuralism may be able to offer insights that would not be revealed by more conventional analyses.