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Behavioural OR: Recent developments and future perspectives

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Behavioural OR (BOR) is not a new field of study but there have been many recent developments. A key one is the distinction of studying behaviour in, with, or beyond models. To showcase other developments, the chapter outlines the conceptual similarities and differences between BOR and behavioural operations management (BOM) . We also briefly survey the empirical connection with behavioural sciences such as economics and psychology. Interestingly, this survey points to a main future perspective of BOR, its connection to Artificial Intelligence (AI), which raises important issues of how to build transparent and at the same time effective models. The chapter also includes pointers to theoretical, methodological, and educational resources for BOR.

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  1. Southampton Business School, University of Southampton, Southampton, England

    Martin Kunc & Konstantinos V. Katsikopoulos

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  1. Kent Business School, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

    Saïd Salhi

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Kunc, M., Katsikopoulos, K.V. (2022). Behavioural OR: Recent developments and future perspectives. In: Salhi, S., Boylan, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Operations Research . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96935-6_22

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