Abstract
The management of change and the psychology of decision-making behaviour have long been the subject of systematic research in the social sciences. However, it is only comparatively recently that operational researchers have become aware of just how much of this research is pertinent to their concerns. Last year's IFORS Conference in Cambridge on “Operational Research and the Social Sciences” was a valuable contribution to increasing this awareness. Many of the papers published in the proceedings (Jackson, Keys and Cropper, 1989) should be compulsory reading for practitioners and students of OR.
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