Management science: The business use of operations research (Aldus science and technology series)

The management of complex enterprises, in government, in business, or in the military services, is certainly the most important practical activity in which individual men engage. Yet it is one of the most recent to seek assistance directly from the formal apparatus of science. In this book one of the pioneers in the field tells something of the occasion for, and the methods and achievements of,the scientific approach to management problems.