Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a systematic method for practitioners (owners, operators, designers, and performers) to identify pathologies (aberrations from healthy system function) in complex systems. Design/methodology/approach A range of published works, which aim to provide...

The paper tries to develop a pursuable framework for conducting interdisciplinary research in the field of management. This paper follows an exploratory methodology of investigating top 16 reputed institutions for their research outcomes in the form of working papers, thesis, journal...

This paper studies a multi-facility network synthesis problem, called the Two-level Network Design (TLND) problem, that arises in the topological design of hierarchical communication, transportation, and electric power distribution networks. We are given an undirected network containing two...

Reflective problem solving activity presumes the existence of a problem definition or representation, often the precursor of a formal model. Although problem definition has been addressed by theorists from several disciplines, it has not been adequately conceptualized, limiting the potential...