Exploring complex sociocultural situations through soft operational research

A paradigm can be thought of as a living commodity system, carried by a self-organising group. The commodity is often "practical knowledge", and the paradigm maintains a life cycle that begins with commodity gestation, leading to commodity depreciation through death or transformation. Duri...

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Main Author: Maurice Yolles
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Pesquisa Operacional 2010-08-01
Series:Pesquisa Operacional
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-74382010000200006