Roy, Bernard Historical look at the place of operational research and decision support in France. (Regard historique sur la place de la recherche opérationnelle et de l’aide à la décision en France.) (French. English, French summaries) Zbl 1180.90003 Math. Sci. Hum., Math. Soc. Sci. 175, 25-40 (2006). Summary: This paper revisits and expands my talk at the 7th congress of the ROADEF association. It is restricted to France and is essentially concerned with the place that the OR-DA has held in various environments during the last fifty years, as well as the way that is has been perceived and institutionalized.After a first panoramic look at the evolution of OR-DA, in my opinion, divided into three periods, I consider its history according to five visual angles. Some proposals are expressed as a conclusion. MSC: 90-03 History of operations research and mathematical programming 01A65 Development of contemporary mathematics 90B50 Management decision making, including multiple objectives Keywords:decision making; history; ROADEF PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{B. Roy}, Math. Sci. Hum., Math. Soc. Sci. 175, 25--40 (2006; Zbl 1180.90003) Full Text: DOI Link Link