It is now widely accepted that public policy development requires both an appreciation of public values and an ability to involve insights from local people. Operational research (OR) has made some contributions to public policy development, and there has been a call to use problem-structuring...

The predominant assumption in the management literature is that corporate valuesare internalised into organisational members' personal value systems. Corporatevalues, viewed in this way, perform a controlling role in organisations, consistentwith the characteristics of a deliberate strategy...