‘A festering sore’: the issue of professionalism in the history of the Operational Research Society

DOI10.1057/PALGRAVE.JORS.2602078zbMATH Open1121.90300OpenAlexW1964028344MaRDI QIDQ3433478FDOQ3433478

Authors: Maurice W. Kirby 

Publication date: 30 April 2007

Published in: The Journal of the Operational Research Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602078

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zbMATH Keywords

history of OR/MS, Operational Research Society, professionalism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics at institutions and academies (non-university) (01A74) History of operations research and mathematical programming (90-03) Operations research and management science (90B99)

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