TY - BOOK ID - 14259672 TI - Operational research in war and peace PY - 2003 SN - 1860942970 9786611866792 1281866792 1860949401 9781860949401 9781281866790 9781860943669 1860943667 9781860942976 1860943667 PB - London River Edge, NJ Imperial College Press Distributed by World Scientific DB - UniCat KW - Electronic books. -- local. KW - Military art and science -- Great Britain. KW - Operations research -- Great Britain. KW - Research, Industrial -- Great Britain. KW - Operations research KW - Military art and science KW - Research, Industrial KW - Civil & Environmental Engineering KW - Engineering & Applied Sciences KW - Operations Research KW - Fighting KW - Military power KW - Military science KW - Warfare KW - Warfare, Primitive KW - Operational analysis KW - Operational research KW - Faraday partnerships KW - Naval art and science KW - War KW - Industrial engineering KW - Management science KW - Research KW - System theory UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14259672 AB - 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 Based upon a vast array of published and unpublished sources, the book provides an original account of the discipline's pre-war and wartime origins.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 coal-mining, and its rapid adoption in the UK corporate sector after 1960, will be of particular interest to practitioners. ER -