The metasystem approach to organizational decision-making presented in this paper is set in a control systems framework. Decision-making is approached from a control systems viewpoint. The concept of metasystem is introduced as a framework for decision-making about decision-making, that is, the...

Freedom can be planned. It is the result of a designing triad consisting of the planning agents' assumptions, the planning system's conditions and the opportunities and/or barriers which enhance or hinder the exercise of freedom. The "assumptions-conditions-opportunities" triad is examined to...

The September 1971 issue of Operations Research contains an ORSA committee's report entitled "Guidelines for the Practice of Operations Research." The issue also contains other material relating to a dispute concerning a specific operations research project. It occurred to me that members of The...

A featured presentation at the Ninth Annual International Meeting of The Institute of Management Sciences, jointly with the Econometric Society, at Ann Arbor, Michigan, September 11, 1962. "A unified science of management." Is it a matter of faith or of enterprise? A unified science of...

The occasion of this meeting marks one more incident in peaceful international existence. The very spirit of the meeting itself, in which intellectuals and managers of different nations meet to discuss their mutual problems, is a sign of our times. We of Canada and the USA have learned to...

This paper is concerned with the profession of operations research and specifically with the preparation for the profession. On a fairly general plain, the paper expresses a concern about the future of a profession which ought to be in the lead in the growing societal anxiety over poverty,...

This paper is a summary of the proceedings of TIMS Methodology Symposium on realism in management science held in Mont Gabriel Lodge in the Laurentian Mountains in April 1961. This particular symposium was organized by Roger Crane and C. West Churchman. "Management Technology", ISSN 0542-4917,...

No abstract available. "Management Technology", ISSN 0542-4917, was published as a separate journal from 1960 to 1964. In 1965 it was merged into Management Science.

No abstract available. "Management Technology", ISSN 0542-4917, was published as a separate journal from 1960 to 1964. In 1965 it was merged into Management Science.

Theory and fact are just two sides of the same coin; but the two sides of a coin are different, and this difference will continue to characterize the development of management science. I hope that the future issues of the journal will more and more emphasize the problems of measurement and...