Operations Research trajectories: The Anglo-American experience from the 1940s to the 1990s

Operations Research

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 661-670

  Kirby, Maurice W ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH TRAJECTORIES;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 0034262788     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.48.5.661.12402     Document Type: Article

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