'Development of operational research as a management tool. The British experience, 1940-80' in F Amatori et al (eds), Deindustrialization and Reindustialization in 20th Century Europe

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Analyse the origins and diffusion of OR in the UK providing 1] a brief commentary on the origins of OR in Britain as a prelude to discussion of the process of diffusion and dissemination after 1945; 2] presents two case studies of OR in practice during the methodological "golden age" - the OR division of the British Iron & Steel Research Association and the OR programmes conducted by the Field Investigation Group of the National Coal Board; 3] a retrospective commentary on the post war development of OR in the context of the methodological and philosophical approach of the 1970s and 1980s'