This paper develops a taxonomy of objectives and methods used to do research on research or meta-research (MR) in operations research and the management sciences (OR/MS). Using this taxonomy, most MR type papers published in refereed OR/MS journals are identified and classified. The resulting...

America has a long and rich history of transferring technology (TT), from government laboratories and agencies to the private sector as a matter of national policy. This policy dates back to the Morrill Act of 1862 creating the Land Grant Universities and in turn the Agricultural Extension...

This paper relates the classical Charnes, Cooper and Rhodes' (CCR) model in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to the Weak Axiom of Profit Maximization (WAPM) in Firm Theory. Varian's (1990) firm theory analysis is extended from a single firm to multiple firms. This allows deriving the classical...

Until 1948 the year Israel gained independence from Britain, its land was mostly barren, sparsely populated, and its agriculture performed by small communes of inexperienced farmers. Its manufacturing was cottage industry in format. Over the years, Israeli universities and institutes have...

This paper uses a game-theoretic framework to suggest the fair value for information extracted via data mining and shared between two retail-market competitors. Neither competitor has a dominant position in that market. For mutual benefit, the two players each owning a privileged information set...

Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) has been used in the practice of Operations Research/ Management Science (OR/MS) since the early 70s. In the 90s it emerged as a viable academic discipline. Unfortunately, its proponents have articulated a dichotomy or mutual exclusivity between their approach and...

This paper presents a scheme for classifying the Supply Chain Management (SCM) literature. SCM is broadly defined to include all classical business functions and theoretic management disciplines which impacted this emerging field. Consequently, its literature is very disjoint and disparate. It...

This paper presents a scheme for classifying the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) literature. The taxonomy allows one to distinguish articles on the basis of the data source used (D) if any, the type of envelopment (E) invoked, the approach to analysis (A) used, and the nature (N) of the paper....

Seiford provided a comprehensive bibliography of the data envelopment analysis literature up to and including 1995. Since then the literature published in refereed journals has grown by 150%. This paper updates and in a sense upgrades the said bibliography based on an exhaustive search of...

After listing various approaches used over the years to teach OR/MS and quantitative methods and showing sample references for each, this paper suggests that taxonomies, when used in combination with any other approach, can uniquely serve an important educational objective - showing the overall...