Horlick-Jones, Tom and Rosenhead, Jonathan (2007) The uses of observation: combining problem structuring methods and ethnography. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 58 (5). pp. 588-601. ISSN 0160-5682
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In this paper, we examine conceptual and practical aspects of carrying out cross-disciplinary, multi-method, interventions that bring together methods from operational research (OR) with ethnographic tools drawn from sociology and anthropology. We note that such methodological hybridization is not a new development, although historically, the role of ethnography in OR has not always been explicit in written accounts. We illustrate such usage by means of a number of concrete examples. We then describe recent work in which we have successfully combined problem structuring methods with ethnographic investigations in order to address disparate problem issues.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jors/index.html |
| Additional Information: | © 2007 Operational Research Society Ltd. |
| Divisions: | LSE |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Mar 2011 16:29 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Jan 2024 19:39 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/33412 |
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