Drift or Shift? Continuity, Change, and International Variation in Knowledge Production in OR/MS

With the aim of contributing to the debate around OR/MS as a discipline, this study provides a historical comparative investigation of publicly available knowledge production in the field. The empirical investigation is based on a content analysis of 300 randomly selected articles from six major jou...

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Published in:Operations research 2003-09, Vol.51 (5), p.711-720
Main Authors: Denizel, Meltem, Usdiken, Behlul, Tuncalp, Deniz
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analysis
Authorship attribution
Classification
Comparative analysis
Content analysis
Education
Industrial engineering
Information production
Management education
Management science
Observational research
Operations research
OR Chronicle
Professional
Scholarly publishing
Studies
Universities
World War II
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Summary:With the aim of contributing to the debate around OR/MS as a discipline, this study provides a historical comparative investigation of publicly available knowledge production in the field. The empirical investigation is based on a content analysis of 300 randomly selected articles from six major journals in the field. We have found: (1) since the late 1950s to the present day there has been no significant change in the types of published research in OR/MS in North America; (2) from the late 1950s to the present day, there have been significant differences in types of published research in OR/MS internationally. The imputed imbalance between theory and applications in published work had already occurred in the early stages of the development of OR/MS in North America and has since remained very much the same. Furthermore, research in the United Kingdom has been distinctly different from that dominant in North America and elsewhere. There are also indications that outside North America and the United Kingdom there is an emerging turn towards applications-oriented research. Over the last two or three decades there has been a significant increase overall in the share of articles published by academic authors.
ISSN:0030-364X
1526-5463
DOI:10.1287/opre.51.5.711.16750