Operational Research in War and Peace: The British Experience from the 1930s to 1970 - Softcover

Kirby, Maurice W

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1860943667 ISBN 13: 9781860943669

Publisher: Imperial College Press, 2003

Synopsis

This 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 Based upon a vast array of published and unpublished sources, the book provides an original account of the discipline's pre-war and wartime origins.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 coalmining, and its rapid adoption in the UK corporate sector after 1960, will be of particular interest to practitioners. The book also analyses and explains the diffusion of OR into local and central government and provides an informed commentary on the origins and subsequent history of the OR Society. Professor Kirby has related the development of OR in the UK to contemporary developments in the USA. The book concludes with a resume of the post-1970 debates concerning the future trajectory of OR.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Readership: Graduate students, academics and practitioners in operational research and management science, as well as military, business and economic historians.

Review:

.,." shows that the success of or as an independent science has considerably increased the level of its technical requirements ..."

About this edition

• Publisher: Imperial College Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1860943667
• ISBN 13: 9781860943669
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 476