Strategic Options Development and Analiysis (SODA): a survey of fields of application (1989-2018)

• Ano de defesa: 2019
• Autor(a) principal: Abuabara, Leila [UNIFESP]
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: eng
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Problem Structuring; SODA; Cognitive Mapping; Eden; Kelly's Theory; Estruturação De Problemas; Mapeamento Cognitivo; Teoria De Kelly
• Link de acesso: https://sucupira.capes.gov.br/sucupira/public/consultas/coleta/trabalhoConclusao/viewTrabalhoConclusao.jsf?popup=true&id_trabalho=7928423; https://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/59785

Strategic Options Development and Analysis (SODA) is a well-established problem structuring method (PSM) that has been addressing problematic situation of shared concern for at least 30 years within the discipline of Operational Research (OR). The aim of this study is to assess the ways OR practitioners and academics have been implementing SODA methodology in different fields of knowledge and practice. Hence, we will consider studies associated with the practical application of SODA published from 1989 (the publication date of the first collection of PSMs, the book Rational Analysis for a Problematic World) up to 2018. We will examine the level of each application, whether as a purely SODA application, or as a hybrid. Within these contexts, we will also investigate which elements of the methodology have been used. Our findings suggest that SODA methodology through its associated technique of cognitive mapping has been used especially to improve other methods through an integrated use. Our findings also confirm SODA as an originally participative methodology that provides for dialogue, reflection, learning, consensus and commitment. SODA seems to be adaptable to different contexts, approaches, situations and cultures and, in whole or in part, its use has grown over time. In addition, its main mission has been limited to modeling the problematic situation and providing a common understanding of it to participants, leaving aside the group negotiation support.