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EJOR Special Issue on Community Operational Research: COR Resources

Special Issue of the European Journal of Operational Research

Selected Books

Jackson, M. 1991. Methodology for the Management Sciences. New York, NY: Plenum Press. ISBN: 978-3540713593
Johnson, M.P. (Ed.) 2012. Community-Based Operations Research: Decision Modeling for Local Impact and Diverse Populations. New York: Springer. ISBN: 978-1-4614-0805-5 (hardcover); 978-1-4614-2954-8 (softcover); 978-1-4614-0806-2 (eBook).
Midgley, G. 2000. Systemic Intervention: Philosophy, Methodology, and Practice. New York: Springer. ISBN: 978-0-306-46488-1 (hardcover); 978-1-4613-6885-4 (softcover); 978-1-4615-4201-8 (eBook)
Midgley, G. and A. Ochoa-Arias (Eds). 2004. Community Operational Research: OR and Systems Thinking for Community Development. New York: Springer. ISBN: 978-0-306-48335-6 (hardcover); 978-1-4613-4716-3 (softcover); 978-1-4419-8911-6 (eBook)
Taket, A., Bryant, J., & Ritchie, C. (Eds.) 1994. Community Works: 26 Case Studies Showing Community Operational Research in Action. Panic Publications. ISBN: 978-0-8633-9457-7

Selected Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Boyd, A., Geerling, T., Gregory, W.J., Kagan, C., Midgley, G., Murray, P. and M.P. Walsh. 2007. Systemic evaluation: a participative, multi-method
approach. Journal of the Operational Research Society 58: 1306 -1320.

Johnson, M.P. 2012. “Community-Based Operations Research: Introduction, Theory and Applications”, in (M.P. Johnson, Ed.) Community-Based Operations Research: Decision Modeling for Local Impact and Diverse Populations. New York: Springer, p. 3 – 36.

Midgley, G. and A. Ochoa-Arias. 1999. Visions of community for community OR. Omega 27(2): 259 - 274.

Parry, R. and J. Mingers. 1991. Community Operational Research: Its context and its future. Omega 19(6): 577 - 586.

Taket, A. and L. White. 1997. Wanted: Dead OR alive - Ways of using problem structuring methods in Community OR. International Transactions in Operations Research 4(2): 99 - 108.

Current and Potential Scholarly Outlets

European Journal of Operational Research

Journal of the Operational Research Society

Operations Research

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

Systemic Practice and Action Research

Systems Research and Behavioral Science

Reports, White Papers, Popular Media and Websites

Johnson, M.P. and K. Smilowitz. 2007. "Community-Based Operations Research". OR/MS Today, February 2007

Mingers, J. 2009. "Taming Hard Problems with Soft O.R." OR/MS Today, April 2009

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