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   Analyzing Operations in Business: Issues, Tools, and Techniques » Read Now

   by Michael R. Summers. 235 pgs.

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   The field of operations management is increasingly recognized as being crucial to the success of a company. The premise of this book is that learning specific analytical techniques can provide a deeper understanding of the problems in operations management than merely reading about these problems...

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   The field of operations management is increasingly recognized as being crucial to the success of a company. The premise of this book is that learning specific analytical techniques can provide a deeper understanding of the problems in operations management than merely reading about these problems. The book is concise while still providing a broad discussion of the issues and details to learn these valuable tools.

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   Manufacturing Rationality: The Engineering Foundations of the Managerial Revolution » Read Now

   by Yehouda Shenhav. 247 pgs.

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   Management is a powerful mode of thought and code of conduct in the modern world, closely associated with the American way and a natural extension of economic progress. This is a book about the history of management and the origin of managerial rationality in the United States.
   
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   An Introductory Approach to Operations Research (1978) » Read Now

   by Robert J. Thierauf. 426 pgs.

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   Taylorism Transformed: Scientific Management Theory since 1945 (Chap. 2 "Management by the Numbers: Operations Research and Management Science") » Read Now

   by Stephen P. Waring. 288 pgs.

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   Operations Research: Methods and Problems (1959) » Read Now

   by Maurice Sasieni, Arthur Yaspan. 318 pgs.

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   Problems in Basic Operations Research Methods for Management (1961) » Read Now

   by Randolph W. Cabell, Almarin Phillips. 118 pgs.

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   New Decision-Making Tools for Managers: Mathematical Programing as an Aid in the Solving of Business Problems (1963) (Chap. 1 "Operations Research for Management") » Read Now

   by Edward C. Bursk, John F. Chapman. 416 pgs.

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   Economic Theory and Operations Analysis (1962) (Part IV "Application to Marketing and Operations Research") » Read Now

   by William J. Baumol. 442 pgs.

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   Excellence in Public Relations and Communication Management (Chap. 10 "Public Relations Management and Operations Research") » Read Now

   by David M. Dozier, William P. Ehling, James E. Grunig, Larissa A. Grunig, Fred C. Repper, Jon White. 666 pgs.

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    Patrick Blackett: Sailor, Scientist, and Socialist (Chap. 11 "The Father of Operational Research") » Read Now

    by Tam Dalyell, Peter Hore. 330 pgs.

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    Such was the incredible presence and raw integrity of the subject of this biography that the author of the foreword is sure that Robert Maxwell would have stayed on the straight and narrow had Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett lived a bit longer.