Management and Military Studies: Classical and Current Foundations

ISBN-13: 9780367198978 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 274 str.

Joseph Soeters

Opis

This book connects findings and insights authored by famous scholars in management and organization studies with challenges the military is facing today.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Frederick Taylor: standardized work division, calculation and efficiency, criticism and new developments  3. Mary Parker Follett: dynamic administration, from the growing of power to constructive conflict  4. Chester Barnard: the human side of the (military) enterprise and leadership  5. James March: decision making in organizations and the military, the ‘upper echelon’ approach  6. Chris Argyris: organizational learning in the military  7. Henry Mintzberg: managing in exceptional and military circumstances, strategy development, organization’s structures and closing gaps  8. Oliver Williamson: externalizing activities through transaction costs economics, new public management, organizational hybridities  9. Michael Porter: value creation in business and the military, strategic focus, absorptive capacity  10. Kenneth Merchant: management control, hard and soft controls, financial policies, quality management  11. Jeffrey Pfeffer: external control, unleashing the work force, the knowing-doing gap, effects- and evidence-based management  12. Karl Weick: sense-making in organizations, making sense of safety and incidents, making sense in military operations  13. Steven Barley: the acceptance of technology, virtual work in the military, drones, cyber and big data  14. Geert Hofstede: international management, international military cooperation  15. Rosabeth Moss Kanter: diversity, organizational change and innovation in (military) organizations  16. Keith Provan: forms of network governance and network performance  17. Nils Brunsson: limits to organizational rationality, organizational hypocrisy, standardization  18. Barbara Czarniawska: narratives in management, security and the military  19. Martha Finnemore: international governmental organizations in the world of security and the military  20. Conclusions: general developments, military effectiveness, changes, restraint and understanding

O autorze

Joseph Soeters is a retired professor of management and organization studies at the Netherlands Defence Academy. Currently, he serves as professor at Tilburg University, the Netherlands.