OR/MS Implementation Research: A Bibliography

Whenever the volume of literature dealing with a specific topic reaches some significant level, an expository paper and accompanying bibliography soon follows. It appears that the body of literature on the problem of OR/MS Implementation and Implementation Research has reached this state. Almost 300 papers (75% of them in the last six years) have been written on this topic, as reflected in the author's attempt to collect and classify this literature. During the process of reviewing these papers one observes that many writers are unaware of or neglect to reference the work of others and therefore, with a few notable exceptions, a clear-cut research tradition has not developed. Hopefully the work reported here will add some cohesion to a rather fragmented yet substantial body of research.