Operations management (OM) in the public policy context is extremely complex with many
mutually interacting factors characterized by feedback loops, delays and nonlinearities, as …

It is an exciting time to work in operations management. Advances in theory and methods,
including behavioral operations, dynamic modeling, experimental methods, and field studies …

System dynamics is an approach to problem understanding and solution. It captures the
complexity of real-world problems through the explication of feedback among endogenous …

An efficacious policy and planning process must be focused on enhancing the ability of
decision makers to make sense of an uncertain and complex environment. One tool that …

The managers below the top executives in large corporate organizations are often placed in
the challenging situation of implementing other people's ideas. Top executives will …

In recent years there has been growing interest in the policy community to apply insights
from system dynamics modelling to address the complexity of many policy issues. This …

More often than not, system dynamics model‐based public policy analysis is limited to
testing parameter changes instead of designing and testing new stock‐and‐flow policy …

This chapter presents a brief description of system dynamics (SD) explanatory modelling as
a prerequisite for policy modelling. It focuses on implementation planning and the …

Operations management (OM) is concerned with planning, organizing, implementing, and
controlling value generation through either the manufacturing of products or the provision of …

Formal tools to link system dynamics model's structure to the system modes of behavior
have recently become available. In this paper, we aim to expand the use of these tools to …