Management and Military Studies (Cass Military Studies)

Mary Parker Follett: dynamic administration, from the growing of power to constructive conflict -- Chester Barnard: the human side of the (military) enterprise and leadership -- James March: decision making in organizations and the military, the 'upper echelon' approach -- Chris Argyris: organizational learning in the military -- Henry Mintzberg: managing in exceptional and military circumstances, strategy development, organization's structures and closing gaps -- Oliver Williamson: externalizing activities through transaction costs economics, new public management, organizational hybridities -- Michael Porter: value creation in business and the military, strategic focus, absorptive capacity -- Kenneth Merchant: management control, hard and soft controls, financial policies, quality management -- Jeffrey Pfeffer: external control, unleashing the work force, the knowing-doing gap, effects- and evidence-based management -- Karl Weick: sense-making in organizations, making sense of safety and incidents, making sense in military operations -- Steven Barley: the acceptance of technology, virtual work in the military, drones, cyber and big data -- Geert Hofstede: international management, international military cooperation -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter: diversity, organizational change and innovation in (military) organizations -- Keith Provan: forms of network governance and network performance -- Nils Brunsson: limits to organizational rationality, organizational hypocrisy, standardization -- Barbara Czarniawska: narratives in management, security and the military -- Martha Finnemore: international governmental organizations in the world of security and the military -- Conclusions: general developments, military effectiveness, changes, restraint and understanding.

• | Author: Joseph Soeters
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: April 09, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 274 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0367198975
• | ISBN-13: 9780367198978