The theory of constraints: a methodology apart? – a comparison with selected OR/MS methodologies

The theory of constraints: a methodology apart? – a comparison with selected OR/MS methodologies

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Article ID: iaor2008519
Country: United Kingdom
Volume: 33
Issue: 6
Start Page Number: 506
End Page Number: 524
Publication Date: Dec 2005
Journal: OMEGA
Authors: , ,
Keywords: soft systems, programming: constraints
Abstract:

Mingers, Mingers and Brocklesby, and others have sought to develop classificatory frameworks that would be useful in understanding the nature and characteristics of Operational Research/Management Science (OR/MS) methodologies and the philosophical assumptions underpinning them. This paper extends their work to the domain of methods and methodologies known as the Theory of Constraints (TOC). In particular, the paper helps position TOC methods and tools in relation to traditional OR/MS methodologies, methods and tools, and provides a basis for continuing multi-methodological development across the two domains. The paper concludes that the tools, techniques and methods of TOC can be viewed as a methodological set of complementary hard and soft tools and methods that contribute to all phases of activity and across all three social, personal and material dimensions of the Mingers–Brocklesby framework, and share the ontological and epistemological characteristics and assumptions of extant OR/MS methodologies.

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