The OR/MS ecosystem: Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
Sodhi, ManMohan S.; Tang, Christopher S.
署名单位：
City St Georges, University of London; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
刊物名称：
OPERATIONS RESEARCH
ISSN/ISSBN：
0030-364X
DOI：
10.1287/opre.1080.0519
发表日期：
2008
页码：
267-277
关键词：
摘要：
We believe that research, teaching, and practice are becoming increasingly disengaged from one another in the OR/MS ecosystem. This ecosystem comprises researchers, educators, and practitioners in its core along with end users, universities, and funding agencies. Continuing disengagement will result in OR/MS occupying only niche areas and disappearing as a distinct field even though its tools would live on. To understand the reasons for this disengagement better and to engender discussion among academics and practitioners on how to counter it, we present the ecosystem's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Incorporated in this paper are insights from a cluster of sessions at the 2006 INFORMS meeting in Pittsburgh (Where Do We Want to Go in OR/MS?) and from the literature.