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Professor Maurice Kirby

Formerly at Lancaster University

  1. 2013
  2. Published

    Early British OR

    Kirby, M. & Rand, G. K., 30/11/2013, Encyclopedia of operations research and management science. Gass, S. I. & Fu, M. C. (eds.). 3rd ed. New York: Springer, Vol. 1. p. 457-461 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  3. 2009
  4. Published

    V is for vulnerable: operational research and the v-bombers

    Godwin, M. & Kirby, M., 2009, In: Defence Studies. 9, 1, p. 149-168 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  5. 2008
  6. Published

    Operational research as counterfactual history: a retrospective analysis of the use of battlefield nuclear weapons

    Kirby, M. & Godwin, M. T., 2008, In: Journal of Strategic Studies. 31, 4, p. 633-660 28 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  7. 2007
  8. Published

    Operations research in World War 2: its role in RAF fighter command

    Kirby, M., 2007, In: Military Operations Research. 12, 4, p. 1-12 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  9. Published

    Paradigm change in operations research: thirty years of debate

    Kirby, M., 2007, In: Operations Research. 55, 1, p. 1-13 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  10. 2006
  11. Published

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

    Kirby, M., 2006, In: Journal of the Operational Research Society. 57, 11, p. 1161-1172 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  12. 2005
  13. Published

    IFORS’ operational research hall of fame: Russell L. Ackoff

    Kirby, M. & Rosenhead, J. R., 2005, In: International Transactions in Operational Research. 12, 1, p. 129-134 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  14. 2004
  15. Published

    Early operations research in world war one: Viscount Tiverton and the strategic bombing of Germany

    Kirby, M., 2004, In: Military Operations Research. 9, 2, p. 5-16 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  16. 2003
  17. Published

    Mining: industrial organisation, the environment and pollution

    Kirby, M., 2003, The Oxford Encyclopaedia of Economic History. Oxford: Oxford University Press

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  18. Published

    Operational Research in War and Peace: The British Experience from the 1930s to 1970

    Kirby, M., 2003, London: Imperial College Press. 476 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

  19. Published

    The intellectual journey of Russell Ackoff: from OR apostle to OR apostate

    Kirby, M., 2003, In: Journal of the Operational Research Society. 54, 10, p. 1127-1140 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  20. 2002
  21. Published

    BHP Rivett

    Kirby, M., 2002, International Encyclopedia of Business and Management. London: Thomson Learning, p. 5658-5662 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  22. 2001
  23. Published

    The history of early British operational research

    Kirby, M., 2001, Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science (2nd Edition). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, p. 366-369 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  24. 2000
  25. Published

    Operations research and the defeat of Nazi Germany

    Kirby, M., 2000, In: Military Operations Research. 5, p. 57-70 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  26. Published

    Operations research trajectories: the Anglo-American experience from the 1940s to the 1990s

    Kirby, M., 2000, In: Operations Research. 48, 5, p. 1-10 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  27. 1999
  28. Published

    Blackett in the 'white heat' of the technological revolution: industrial modernisation under the labour Government, 1964-70

    Kirby, M., 1999, In: Journal of the Operational Research Society. 50, p. 985-993 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  29. Published

    Industrial and structural change in Western Europe since1945

    Kirby, M., 1999, Western Europe and Source Change Since 1945. Boston: Addison Wesley Publishing Company, p. 81-104 24 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  30. Published

    The development of operational research as a management tool

    Kirby, M., 1999, European Business History Association Conference: De-industrialization and Re-industrialization in 20th Century Europe (Terni) - 1999. Milan: Franco Angeli, p. 116-142 27 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  31. 1998
  32. Published

    Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett

    Kirby, M., 1998, The Handbook of Management Thinking. London: International Thomson Business Press, p. 75-79 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  33. Published

    Patrick Rivett

    Kirby, M., 1998, The Handbook of Management Thinking. London: International Thomson Business Press, p. 75-79 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  34. Published

    The origins and diffusion of operational research in the UK

    Kirby, M. & Capey, R., 1998, In: Journal of the Operational Research Society. 49, p. 307-326 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  35. Published

    The society of friends and business culture, 1700-1830

    Prior, A. & Kirby, M., 1998, Religion, Business and Wealth in Modern Britain. London and New York: Routledge, p. 115-136 22 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  36. 1997
  37. Published

    Britain's manifest industrial destiny: the culture of high technology and industrial performance in the twentieth century

    Kirby, M., 1997, In: Business and Economic History. 26, 2, p. 751-769 19 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  38. Published

    Mining and extractive industries

    Kirby, M., 1997, International Bibliography of Business History. London and New York: Routledge, p. 23-74 52 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  39. Published

    The air defence of Great Britain, 1920 - 1940: an operational research perspective

    Kirby, M., 1997, In: Journal of the Operational Research Society. 48, p. 555-568 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

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