03238nam 2200625Ia 450 991045426980332120200520144314.01-281-86679-297866118667921-86094-940-1(CKB)1000000000537737(EBL)1681447(OCoLC)815741964(SSID)ssj0000215348(PQKBManifestationID)12043083(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000215348(PQKBWorkID)10183948(PQKB)10630414(MiAaPQ)EBC1681447(WSP)0000P247(Au-PeEL)EBL1681447(CaPaEBR)ebr10255882(CaONFJC)MIL186679(EXLCZ)99100000000053773720031031d2003 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrOperational research in war and peace[electronic resource] the British experience from the 1930s to 1970 /Maurice W. KirbyLondon Imperial College Press ;Singapore distributed by World Scientificc20031 online resource (478 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-86094-297-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. 413-436) and index.Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 The Origins of Operational Research: Military and Other Antecedents to 1937; 3 The Beginnings of Operational Research: British Air Strategy, 1920-1940; 4 The Wartime Diffusion of Operational Research, 1940-1945; 5 Operational Research in Bomber Command, 1941-1945; 6 The Postwar Labour Government and Operational Research, 1945-51; 7 Operational Research in Iron and Steel; 8 Operational Research in Coalmining; 9 The Diffusion of Operational Research After 1960: The Corporate Sector10 Operational Research in the Public Sector 11 The Institutional Development of Operational Research; Bibliography; INDEXThis is the first of two projected volumes on the history of operational research (OR) in Britain commissioned by the UK Operational Research Society. Based upon a vast array of published and unpublished sources, the book provides an original account of the discipline's pre-war and wartime origins. This serves as a prelude to a wide-ranging analysis of the diffusion of OR into the public and private sectors after 1945. The chapters on the role of OR in iron and steel and coal-mining, and its rapid adoption in the UK corporate sector after 1960, will be of particular interest to practitioners.Operations researchGreat BritainMilitary art and scienceGreat BritainResearch, IndustrialGreat BritainElectronic books.Operations researchMilitary art and scienceResearch, Industrial658.4034Kirby M. W174196MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454269803321Operational research in war and peace2231720UNINA