Full Description
This edited collection addresses the question of which capabilities and competencies enable Behavioral Operational Research to provide sustained improvement to decision processes. The aim is to show how a focus on capability and competency will not only meet short-term requirements for problem solving and decision support, but also build a solid foundation for the future. The contributors present recent advances in Behavioral OR, with a focus on the ways in which users of models deal with incomplete and imprecise information, subjective boundaries and uncertainty. These chapters are structured around three key dimensions of BOR: capabilities, cognition and aspects of practice.
Contents
Chapter 1: Behavioral Operations and Behavioral Operational Research: Similarities and Differences in Competences and Capabilities.- Chapter 2: Behavioural Implications of Demand Perception in Inventory Management.- Chapter 3: Behavioral Operational Research in Portfolio Selection.- Chapter 4: Feedback, Information Representation and Bidder Behavior in Electronic Auctions.- Chapter 5: Probability and beyond: including uncertainties in decision analysis.- Chapter 6: How to use ambiguity in problem understanding for enabling divergent thinking: integrating Problem Structuring Methods and Concept-Knowledge theory.- Chapter 7: Insights from an initial exploration of cognitive biases in spatial decisions.- Chapter 8: Modeling human behaviors in project management: Insights from the literature review.- Chapter 9: Exploring the machinery for calibrating optimism and realism in transformation programmes: a practical toolkit.- Chapter 10: The importance of human behaviour in practice: insights from the modelling cycle.- Chapter 11: Developing problem structuring capability: a practice-based view.- Chapter 12: Stakeholder behavior in operational research: Connecting the why, who, and how of stakeholder involvement.- Chapter 13: Lessons learned: Acquiring insights from non-operational research perspectives.- Chapter 14: The Merits of Transparent Models.- Chapter 15: Achieving a Balance between Behavioral Theory and Behavioral Practice in Transformation Projects.- Chapter 16: Conjoined capability, collective behavior and collaborative action: What's the connection?.- Chapter 17: Behavioural Aspects of the New General Data Protection Regulation: A Consumer-centric Approach to Operations.- Chapter 18: How do we know anything? Philosophical issues in the collection and interpretation of operational research data.- Chapter 19: Future Directions.
