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200 10$aOperational research in war and peace$b[electronic resource] $ethe British experience from the 1930s to 1970 /$fMaurice W. Kirby
210   $aLondon $cImperial College Press ;$aSingapore $cdistributed by World Scientific$dc2003
215   $a1 online resource (478 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a1-86094-297-0 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 413-436) and index.
327   $aContents; 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 Sector
327   $a10 Operational Research in the Public Sector 11 The Institutional Development of Operational Research; Bibliography; INDEX
330   $aThis 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 Based upon a vast array of published and unpublished sources, the book provides an original account of the discipline's pre-war and wartime origins.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.
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