Joseph Soeters

Management and Military Studies (eBook, PDF)

Classical and Current Foundations

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429520723
• Artikelnr.: 58879430

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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