Is OR/MS Everywhere?

Paul Gray
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Paul Gray: Cox School of Business Administration, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275

Interfaces, 1979, vol. 9, issue 5, 129-134

Abstract: In the May 1978 issue of Interfaces , John Hall, Jr., and Sidney Hess [Hall, J. R., Jr., S. W. Hess. 1978. OR/MS dead or dying? RX for survival. Interfaces 8 (3, May) 42--44.] argued that we are now passing into an era in which the approaches, concepts, and methodologies of OR/MS are becoming pervasive. They cited changes occurring in business school Management Science enrollments as one of the prime indicators. Students interested in Management Science no longer have to study under specialists in the field; they can receive the same training while majoring in a functional area such as finance or accounting. The curricula in these areas are now heavily imbued with OR/MS.The purpose of the present paper is to examine the Hall-Hess hypothesis in terms of evidence implied by what is being published in the scholarly literature. We will show that OR/MS results and applications are no longer being published only in the traditional OR/MS literature (if they ever were published only in these sources).

Keywords: professional:; OR/MS; philosophy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1979
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