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Volume 49, issue 4, April 1998
The Foundation, Development and Current Practice of OR (Papers Presented at a Symposium Held in Bowness, Cumbria, 20-22 May 1996)
17 articles in this issue
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The foundation, development and current practice of OR: An editorial introduction and overview
Authors
- R Fildes
- J C Ranyard
- Content type: Editorial
- Published: 20 April 1998
- Pages: 304 - 306
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The origins and diffusion of operational research in the UK
Authors
- M W Kirby
- R Capey
- Content type: Foundation, development and current practice of OR
- Published: 20 April 1998
- Pages: 307 - 326
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Four good decades of OR in the Canadian Department of National Defence
Authors
- G Lindsey
- Content type: Foundation, development and current practice of OR
- Published: 20 April 1998
- Pages: 327 - 335
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What we learned early in the US Air Force about establishing and maintaining operational research groups
Authors
- H J Miser
- Content type: Foundation, development and current practice of OR
- Published: 20 April 1998
- Pages: 336 - 346
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OR groups and the professionalisation of OR
Authors
- P Keys
- Content type: Foundation, development and current practice of OR
- Published: 20 April 1998
- Pages: 347 - 354
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Winners and losers: adding organisational value
Authors
- J C Ranyard
- R Fildes
- Content type: Foundation, development and current practice of OR
- Published: 20 April 1998
- Pages: 355 - 368
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Cooperation between strands of practice: challenges and opportunities for the renewal of OR
Authors
- W J A M Overmeer
- C J Corbett
- L N Van Wassenhove
- Content type: Foundation, development and current practice of OR
- Published: 20 April 1998
- Pages: 369 - 380
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Strategic operational research
Authors
- P C Bell
- Content type: Foundation, development and current practice of OR
- Published: 20 April 1998
- Pages: 381 - 391
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How OR can survive and prosper
Authors
- R E Machol
- Content type: Perspectives
- Published: 20 April 1998
- Pages: 392 - 395
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To charge or not to charge?
Authors
- S Eilon
- Content type: Perspectives
- Published: 20 April 1998
- Pages: 396 - 402
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The six principles for effective OR—Their relevance in the 90s
Authors
- R Tomlinson
- Content type: Perspectives
- Published: 20 April 1998
- Pages: 403 - 407
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Success and survival—a comment
Authors
- J V Rosenhead
- Content type: Perspectives
- Published: 20 April 1998
- Pages: 408 - 412
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Some observations on practising successful operational research
Authors
- H-J Zimmermann
- Content type: Perspectives
- Published: 20 April 1998
- Pages: 413 - 419
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Beyond internal OR groups
Authors
- R J Ormerod
- Content type: Perspectives—how OR may develop
- Published: 20 April 1998
- Pages: 420 - 429
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Success and survival of OR groups—where to from here?
Authors
- H G Daellenbach
- E G Read
- Content type: Perspectives—how OR may develop
- Published: 20 April 1998
- Pages: 430 - 433
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Summary of final discussion
Authors
- J C Ranyard
- R Fildes
- Content type: Perspectives—how OR may develop
- Published: 20 April 1998
- Pages: 434 - 443