This paper describes and discusses the results of a 1977 national survey covering Operations Research/Management Science (OR/MS) in major U.S. corporations. The major points are organizational location of OR activities in the corporation, academic background of OR personnel, measures of effectiveness for OR activities, frequency of utilization of various OR techniques, areas of application, and problems of implementation.
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