"[The decisionmaking role of the firm has progressed from the neoclassical standpoint of profit maximization to sales …"

"The development (rather than the history) of operations research as a science consists of the development of its meth…"

"We may recognize the subject of management cybernetics — which is seen as a rich provider of models for doing Operati…"

"The aim of management science is to display the best course of action in a given set of circumstances, and this must …"

"The 19th and first half of the 20th century conceived of the world as chaos. Chaos was the oft-quoted blind play of a…"

"The concern of OR with finding an optimum decision, policy, or design is one of its essential characteristics. It doe…"

"OR is the securing of improvement in social systems by means of scientific method"

"By the end of the war the new game theoretic methods that had been developed by von Neumann and Morgenstern were adde…"

"Operations research has many precursors and allied fields, including Taylorism (after Frederick W. Taylor), scientifi…"

"It is hard to say whether increasing complexity is the cause or the effect of man's effort to cope with his expanding…"