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Creativity in OR/MS: From Technique to Epistemology

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  • Haridimos Tsoukas

    (Department of Public and Business Administration, University of Cyprus, 75 Kallipoleos Street, PO Box 537, Nicosia, CY 1678, Cyprus and Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, Great Britain)

  • Demetrios B. Papoulias

    (Department of Economic Sciences, University of Athens, 8, Pesmazoglou Street, 10559, Athens, Greece)

Abstract

James R. Evans has made an interesting contribution with his articles on creativity in OR/MS practice. His main conclusion is that OR/MS practitioners ought to take creativity seriously if they want to be effective problem solvers, and he has suggested a number of techniques that would help them.In a sense, creativity has always been part of the OR/MS tradition, albeit in an embryonic form. Since its early days, for example, OR/MS has been an interdisciplinary undertaking that encouraged bringing insights from different disciplines to bear on a particular problem. Similarly, as Evans has reminded us, OR/MS theory building involves elements of creativity, although this is less related to OR/MS practice per se and more to generating new ideas and novel insights, an activity characteristic of all scientific research.

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  • Haridimos Tsoukas & Demetrios B. Papoulias, 1996. "Creativity in OR/MS: From Technique to Epistemology," Interfaces, INFORMS, vol. 26(2), pages 73-79, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:orinte:v:26:y:1996:i:2:p:73-79
    DOI: 10.1287/inte.26.2.73
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