Perspectives on MS Applications: All Around the Model—An Empirical Study on Ideal Personal Characteristics of Japanese OR/MS Leaders

The personal characteristics of Japanese OR/MS leaders which are considered to affect the successful survival and promotion of OR/MS activities in the organization through their evolutionary phases were empirically examined.

It was found, among other things, that OR/MS leaders should change as an OR/MS group progresses through its organizational evolution in such a way that the characteristics of technical orientation become less important while characteristics of organizational orientation become highly important as the group advances to the maturity phase.