A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Abbott observes in the Chaos of Disciplines that dichotomous framings occur throughout social science as an emergent expression of the organisation of fields of study and that these dichotomies can concern either the object of study, the aspect of the phenomenon taken as problematic or differentiation in methodological styles. This categorisation helps make sense of Rosenhead's original motivation for flagging a particular set of dichotomies as the domain of relevance for problem structuring methods (PSMs), i.e. wicked/messy/strategic problems, and the claim that existing Operational Research (OR) practices were not appropriate for addressing them. The work of Rittel and Webber (1973) was first brought to the attention of the OR community by Churchman (1967). The association that Churchman and then Rosenhead made with wicked problems is that OR should be policy relevant and that Soft OR/PSMs provide OR practitioners with the means to be policy relevant.
Abbott observes in the Chaos of Disciplines that dichotomous framings occur throughout social science as an emergent expression of the organisation of fields of study and that these dichotomies can concern either the object of study, the aspect of the phenomenon taken as problematic or differentiation in methodological styles. This categorisation helps make sense of Rosenhead's original motivation for flagging a particular set of dichotomies as the domain of relevance for problem structuring methods (PSMs), i.e. wicked/messy/strategic problems, and the claim that existing Operational Research (OR) practices were not appropriate for addressing them. The work of Rittel and Webber (1973) was first brought to the attention of the OR community by Churchman (1967). The association that Churchman and then Rosenhead made with wicked problems is that OR should be policy relevant and that Soft OR/PSMs provide OR practitioners with the means to be policy relevant.
Wicked and Messy Problems
Yearworth, Mike (editor)
Problem Structuring ; 17-32
2024-09-24
16 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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