Some Thoughts for Model Builders in the Management and Social Sciences

Arnold Reisman
Additional contact information
Arnold Reisman: Department of Operations Research, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106

Interfaces, 1987, vol. 17, issue 5, 114-120

Abstract: The development of specialized models in management science, industrial engineering, operations research, and econometrics, begun out of necessity, is degenerating into a habit. The literature is replete with models that fit a specific type problem like a glove but are useless for problems that differ in type. All these works need synthesis. Model builders should generalize upon previous works to integrate, systematize or categorize the specialized models within their fields.

Keywords: philosophy of modeling; professional: comments on (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1987
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/inte.17.5.114 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:inm:orinte:v:17:y:1987:i:5:p:114-120

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Interfaces from INFORMS Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Asher ().