Behavioral operations research (BOR) examines the behavior of actual human agents in complex decision problems. BOR is the operations management analog of experimental economics and behavioral finance, and is part of the field known as management science.

Some Problems Studied in Behavioral Operations Research

Newsvendor problem

Assignment problem

Secretary problem

Beer Distribution Game

Scheduling

Optimal maintenance

Queueing theory

External links

• Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
• Behavioral Research in Operations Management 2006 (Conference)
• Harvard Behavioral Operations Conference
• behavioral-or.org J. Neil Bearden's Home Page

Decision theory