Addressing the Challenge of Modeling for Decision‐Making in Socially Responsible Operations

摘要: Companies seek sustainability by combining the quest for profitability with pursuit of social responsibility. Since socially responsible operations are characterized presence multiple stakeholders conflicting goals, applying classical optimization models would seem premature; we first need to capture behavior entire system before attempting optimize sub-systems ensure that focus on ones driving interest. Alternative methodologies required if gain insight into most important drivers in order apply traditional research (OR)/management science (MS) correctly. This study presents an umbrella approach which combines different tackle complexity, unfamiliar context, and counter-intuitive at overall level