Commentaries on “Discussing five decades of legacy of soft systems methodology in operational research and other fields of knowledge”—Alberto Paucar-Caceres

Giles A. Hindle; Kathy Kotiadis; Martin Kunc; David C. Lane; Hernán López-Garay; Alejandro Ochoa Arias; Chris Smith; Eliseo Vilalta-Perdomo; Mike Yearworth; Alberto Paucar-Caceres

doi:10.1080/01605682.2026.2709981

Commentaries on “Discussing five decades of legacy of soft systems methodology in operational research and other fields of knowledge”—Alberto Paucar-Caceres

Giles A. Hindle
, Kathy Kotiadis
, Martin Kunc^*
, David C. Lane
, Hernán López-Garay
, Alejandro Ochoa Arias
, Chris Smith
, Eliseo Vilalta-Perdomo
, Mike Yearworth
, Alberto Paucar-Caceres

^*Corresponding author for this work

University of Hull
Kent State University
University of Southampton
Henley Business School
Universidad Austral de Chile
University of Exeter Business School
Manchester Metropolitan University

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2355-2374
Number of pages	20
Journal	Journal of the Operational Research Society
Volume	77
Issue number	9
Early online date	19 Aug 2026
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/01605682.2026.2709981
Publication status	Published - 2 Sept 2026

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This is an Accepted Manuscript version of one commentary in the following article, accepted for publication in Journal of the Operational Research Society:
Hindle, G. A., Kotiadis, K., Kunc, M., Lane, D. C., López-Garay, H., Ochoa Arias, A., … Paucar-Caceres, A. (2026). Commentaries on “Discussing five decades of legacy of soft systems methodology in operational research and other fields of knowledge”—Alberto Paucar-Caceres. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 77(9), 2355–2374. https://doi.org/10.1080/01605682.2026.2709981
It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Hindle, G. A., Kotiadis, K., Kunc, M., Lane, D. C., López-Garay, H., Ochoa Arias, A., Smith, C., Vilalta-Perdomo, E., Yearworth, M., & Paucar-Caceres, A. (2026). Commentaries on “Discussing five decades of legacy of soft systems methodology in operational research and other fields of knowledge”—Alberto Paucar-Caceres. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 77(9), 2355-2374. https://doi.org/10.1080/01605682.2026.2709981

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