Items where Author is "Kirby, Maurice"

Journal Article

Godwin, Matthew and Kirby, Maurice (2009) V is for vulnerable : operational research and the v-bombers. Defence Studies, 9 (1). pp. 149-168. ISSN 1470-2436

Kirby, Maurice and Godwin, M T (2008) Operational research as counterfactual history: a retrospective analysis of the use of battlefield nuclear weapons. Journal of Strategic Studies, 31 (4). pp. 633-660. ISSN 0140-2390

Kirby, Maurice (2007) Operations research in World War 2: its role in RAF fighter command. Military Operations Research, 12 (4). pp. 1-12. ISSN 0275-5823

Kirby, Maurice (2007) Paradigm change in operations research: thirty years of debate. Operations Research, 55 (1). pp. 1-13. ISSN 0030-364X

Kirby, Maurice (2006) 'A festering sore': the issue of professionalism in the history of the Operational Research Society. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 57 (11). pp. 1161-1172. ISSN 1476-9360

Kirby, Maurice and Rosenhead, J R (2005) IFORS’ operational research hall of fame: Russell L. Ackoff. International Transactions in Operational Research, 12 (1). pp. 129-134. ISSN 0969-6016

Kirby, Maurice (2004) Early operations research in world war one: Viscount Tiverton and the strategic bombing of Germany. Military Operations Research, 9 (2). pp. 5-16. ISSN 0275-5823

Kirby, Maurice (2003) The intellectual journey of Russell Ackoff: from OR apostle to OR apostate. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 54 (10). pp. 1127-1140. ISSN 1476-9360

Kirby, Maurice (2000) Operations research and the defeat of Nazi Germany. Military Operations Research, 5. pp. 57-70. ISSN 0275-5823

Kirby, Maurice (2000) Operations research trajectories: the Anglo-American experience from the 1940s to the 1990s. Operations Research, 48 (5). pp. 1-10. ISSN 0030-364X

Kirby, Maurice (1999) Blackett in the 'white heat' of the technological revolution: industrial modernisation under the labour Government, 1964-70. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 50. pp. 985-993. ISSN 1476-9360

Kirby, Maurice and Capey, R (1998) The origins and diffusion of operational research in the UK. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 49. pp. 307-326. ISSN 1476-9360

Kirby, Maurice (1997) Britain's manifest industrial destiny: the culture of high technology and industrial performance in the twentieth century. Business and Economic History, 26 (2). pp. 751-769. ISSN 0894-6825

Kirby, Maurice (1997) The air defence of Great Britain, 1920 - 1940: an operational research perspective. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 48. pp. 555-568. ISSN 1476-9360

Kirby, Maurice (1997) The arial bombing of Germany in world war two: an operational research perspective. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 48. pp. 661-677. ISSN 1476-9360

Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings

Kirby, Maurice and Rand, Graham K. (2013) Early British OR. In: Encyclopedia of operations research and management science :. Springer, New York, pp. 457-461. ISBN 978144191377

Kirby, Maurice (2003) Mining: industrial organisation, the environment and pollution. In: The Oxford Encyclopaedia of Economic History :. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 0-19-510507-9

Kirby, Maurice (2002) BHP Rivett. In: International Encyclopedia of Business and Management :. Thomson Learning, London, pp. 5658-5662. ISBN 1-86152-161-8

Kirby, Maurice (2001) The history of early British operational research. In: Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science (2nd Edition) :. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, pp. 366-369. ISBN 0-7923-7827-X

Kirby, Maurice (1999) Industrial and structural change in Western Europe since1945. In: Western Europe and Source Change Since 1945 :. Addison Wesley Publishing Company, Boston, pp. 81-104. ISBN 0-582-291992

Kirby, Maurice (1999) The development of operational research as a management tool. In: European Business History Association Conference: De-industrialization and Re-industrialization in 20th Century Europe (Terni) - 1999 :. Franco Angeli, Milan, pp. 116-142. ISBN 8846416708

Kirby, Maurice (1998) Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett. In: The Handbook of Management Thinking :. International Thomson Business Press, London, pp. 75-79. ISBN 1-86152-162-6

Kirby, Maurice (1998) Patrick Rivett. In: The Handbook of Management Thinking :. International Thomson Business Press, London, pp. 75-79. ISBN 1-86152-162-6

Prior, A and Kirby, Maurice (1998) The society of friends and business culture, 1700-1830. In: Religion, Business and Wealth in Modern Britain :. Routledge, London and New York, pp. 115-136. ISBN 0-415-16898-8

Kirby, Maurice (1997) Mining and extractive industries. In: International Bibliography of Business History :. Routledge, London and New York, pp. 23-74. ISBN 0-415-08641-8

Book/Report/Proceedings

Kirby, Maurice (2003) Operational Research in War and Peace: The British Experience from the 1930s to 1970. Imperial College Press, London. ISBN 1-86094-297-0