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Negotiating perspectives and values through soft OR in the context of urban renewal

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  • Elena Tavella
  • Isabella Lami

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Negotiating perspectives and values is at the core of using PSMs to tackle complex and uncertain problem situations. Exploring how such negotiations evolve at the micro-level of real-time interactions can help grasp communicative behaviours and workshop structures that influence negotiation processes, and the achievement of outcomes. This study reports on an exploratory experiment with three MSc student groups engaged in (i) a Soft Systems Methodology, (ii) a Strategic Choice Approach, and (iii) a non-problem structuring method workshop to make progress with a case of urban renewals. Our micro-level content analysis suggests that (no)model use can lead to three different dynamics in which participants discuss different perspectives and values, negotiate their meanings, create knowledge and agree on solutions to tackle the problem situation that are added to model content. Our findings contribute to increasing our understanding of the nature of soft OR and its effects on group interactions during workshops.

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  • Elena Tavella & Isabella Lami, 2019. "Negotiating perspectives and values through soft OR in the context of urban renewal," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 70(1), pages 136-161, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:tjorxx:v:70:y:2019:i:1:p:136-161
    DOI: 10.1080/01605682.2018.1427433
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    1. Isabella M. Lami & Stefano Moroni, 2020. "How Can I Help You? Questioning the Role of Evaluation Techniques in Democratic Decision-Making Processes," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(20), pages 1-17, October.
    2. Isabella M. Lami & Beatrice Mecca, 2020. "Assessing Social Sustainability for Achieving Sustainable Architecture," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(1), pages 1-21, December.
    3. Edoardo Fregonese & Isabella M. Lami & Elena Todella, 2020. "Aesthetic Perspectives in Group Decision and Negotiation Practice," Group Decision and Negotiation, Springer, vol. 29(6), pages 993-1019, December.
    4. Yiming Wang & Pengcheng Xiang, 2019. "Investigate the Conduction Path of Stakeholder Conflict of Urban Regeneration Sustainability in China: the Application of Social-Based Solutions," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(19), pages 1-18, September.
    5. Nici Zimmermann & Katherine Curran, 2023. "Dynamics of interdisciplinarity: a microlevel analysis of communication and facilitation in a group model‐building workshop," System Dynamics Review, System Dynamics Society, vol. 39(4), pages 336-370, October.
    6. Alexandre de A. Gomes Júnior & Vanessa B. Schramm, 2022. "Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade," Systemic Practice and Action Research, Springer, vol. 35(1), pages 55-88, February.

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