Spreadsheets and OR/MS Models: An End-User Perspective

Linda Leon, Zbigniew Przasnyski and Kala Chand Seal
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Linda Leon: Department of Finance and Computer Information Systems, College of Business Administration, Loyola Marymount University, 7101 W. 80th Street, Los Angeles, California 90045
Zbigniew Przasnyski: Department of Finance and Computer Information Systems, College of Business Administration, Loyola Marymount University, 7101 W. 80th Street, Los Angeles, California 90045
Kala Chand Seal: Department of Finance and Computer Information Systems, College of Business Administration, Loyola Marymount University, 7101 W. 80th Street, Los Angeles, California 90045

Interfaces, 1996, vol. 26, issue 2, 92-104

Abstract: In 1986, Bodily stated that practitioners could use spreadsheets to model management science/operations research (OR/MS) problems. We surveyed OR practitioners to determine the extent of implementation of these OR/MS problems in a spreadsheet environment and found that end users are solving OR/MS problems using spreadsheets across many functional areas of business, though in varying degrees. Some areas show higher use than others and spreadsheet models are being used to implement various OR tools in a pattern very similar to their use in the nonspreadsheet environment.

Keywords: computers: spreadsheets; professional: MS/OR implementation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
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