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Book Selection Edited by JM Wilson D Ketchen (ed.): Advances in Applied Business Strategy, Volume 5ÐTurnaround Research DL Woodruff (ed.): Advances in Computational and Stochastic Optimization, Logic Programming, and Heuristic Search J Rosenhead and A Tripathy (eds): Operational Research for Development F Glover and M Laguna: Tabu Search
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Advances in Applied Business Strategy, Volume 5Ð Turnaround Research
busy OR analysts trying to meet a deadline. We need something more condensed and to the point.
D Ketchen (ed.) Academic Press, Stamford, Connecticut, 1998. xiv 280 pp. $78.50. ISBN 0 7623 001 9
University of Maryland
The book is concerned with developing a strategy to study scienti®cally the concept of a `turn around organisation'. The editors approach this dif®cult task by providing a set of articles which have been published in scholarly publications. The thesis of the editors is that whatever has been done in the `turn around organisation' might be considered to be a random assortment of publications. This sort of random effort will not lead to a scienti®c approach to any subject. One needs a common set of de®nitions and an underlying theory to attain scienti®c status. My question to the book is: Is presenting a collection of organised articles on a subject an approach to making the subject scienti®c? The authors' understanding of the answer to this question is `yes'. This approach will provide a beginning so it is a necessary ®rst step. How well the authors achieved the necessary ®rst step would be in the purview of those who are experts in the ®eld of `turn around organisations', and not in the eyes of an OR analyst. On the other hand, the book is up for sale to our community, and should provide us with insights on how to develop a suf®cient understanding of the problem to be able to deal with it at our level. I ®nd this approach of putting together a number of articles to be dif®cult to extract what I need to conduct an analysis. Someone who is writing a thesis or dissertation might be well served for having a ready made literary search available to them, but for a busy practitioner, it might be a different story. This leads me to my conclusion about the book. I cannot give it an overall recommendation. I believe that should best be determined by the user of the book. It is de®nitely recommended for a student doing advanced research in `turn around organisations' as well as academics pursuing theory development, but only a so-so recommendation for
C Leake
Advances in Computational and Stochastic Optimization, Logic Programming, and Heuristic Search DL Woodruff (ed.) Kluwer Academic Publishers, London, 1998. vii 312 pp. £79.25. ISBN 0 7923 8078 9 This edited volume presents twelve contributions that represent `the expanding research frontiers in Operations Research and Computer Science at the time of the sixth conference of the Computer Science Technical Section of I
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