Meta papers on operations research

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Some time ago, I wrote this answer: https://or.stackexchange.com/a/3323/405 to a question here on this stack exchange. I've had similar discussions with colleges, but I never found anything written down on "meta topics". So I thought, probably someone else knows much more about this then me.
Actual Question: I am looking for literature about operations research. In particular sources that look at it from a meta perspective. Examples of what I would consider "meta-questions" would be:

Is operations research a form of engineering, an inductive or a deductive science?
How is long term progress achieved and measured in operations research?
How do the different subfields interact?
Is there a theory to practice pipeline?
Is there a pipeline in the opposite direction?
How long are the pipelines?
What differentiates operations research from the neighboring disciplines?

TL,DR: Are there any meta papers about operations research?

David M. · Answer

One of my favorite OR papers is Ackoff's The Future of Operational Research is Past (1979). It's thought-provoking and quite...colorful.
While looking for that paper, I found a few others in related vein:
OR/MS: Dead or Dying? RX for Survival by Hall and Hess (1978)
Present Positions and Future Prospects in Management Science by Jackson (1987)
The Natural Drift: What Happened to Operations Research? by Corbett and Van Wassenhove (1993)
These papers all have 100+ cites (according to Google Scholar). There's a long tradition of discussing OR as a discipline within the OR literature.

TheSimpliFire · Answer

Is operations research really research?1 discusses how the Design Research paradigm can be used to evaluate OR problems.

Reference 
 [1] Manson, N. J. (2006). Is operations research really research?. Orion. 22(2):155-180.

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