Understanding the Problem of Operational Research : Collected Readings Book

	Preface
1	Operational Research	7
2	Reminiscences of Operational Research in World War II by Some of its Practitioners	31
3	A History of Operations Research	47
4	A Comparison of Operational Research in the U.S.A. and in Great Britain	83
5	Early OR in the Steel Company of Wales	95
6	Internal Organization	103
7	Operations Research in Perspective	121
8	The General Nature of Operations Research	131
9	OR/MS: Dead or Dying? RX for Survival	157
10	The Future of Operational Research is Past	161
11	The Changing Role of O.R.	179
12	Problem Construction and the Influence of OR	195
13	Could OR be a Science?	209
14	The Craft of Applied Systems Analysis	215
15	A Materialist Analysis of Operational Research	231
16	Discussion and Recommendations	257
17	Operations Research: the Next Decade	269
18	Present Positions and Future Prospects in Management Science	303
19	OR as Technology: Some Issues and Implications	323
	Conclusion: Towards the Future	335
	Subject Index	339