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General Paper

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

M W KirbyLancaster UniversityLancasterUKCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 1161-1172 | Received 01 Oct 2004, Accepted 01 Jul 2005, Published online: 21 Dec 2017

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