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Arming America at War a Model for Rapid Defense Acquisition in Time of War
This book examines the rapid acquisition of Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles during wartime, from inception in 2006 to deployment by 2010. It analyzes key factors behind the program’s success, trade-offs made for speed, and the long-term impact on U.S. defense procurement.
Governing Fables
This book emphasizes the importance of narrative for public servants, analyzing narratives from the past 25 years in the US and UK. It covers genres like British government narratives, American political narratives, and more, offering lessons on management and narrative skills. Ideal for public management scholars and political enthusiasts.
Challenges in Volunteer Management
This volume addresses the challenges of volunteer management, highlighting the limitations of both academic and practitioner approaches. It emphasizes the need for a cross-disciplinary understanding of volunteerism. The book aims to demonstrate the breadth of thought on volunteer management across various disciplines and settings.
Outcome-Oriented Public Management
This book introduces "outcome-oriented public management" (OPM), emphasizing responsibility over accountability and focusing on public service outcomes. It adapts the New Public Management model to the Rechtsstaat tradition of Continental Europe, discussing its benefits and drawbacks for students and practitioners in public administration.
U.S. Military Program Management
An indispensable resource for all defense industry professionals—governmental and commercial! Introducing the only book on the market offering valuable best practices and lessons learned for U.S. military program management The U.S. Department of Defense and the related defense industry together form the largest and most powerful government and business entity in the world, developing some of the most expensive and complex major systems ever created. U. S. Military Program Management presents a detailed discussion, from a multi-functional view, of the ins and outs of U.S. military program management and offers recommendations for improving practices in the future. More than 15 leading experts present case studies, best practices, and lessons learned from the Army, Navy, and Air Force, from both the government and industry/contractor perspectives. This book addresses the key competencies of effective U.S. military program management in six comprehensive sections: • Requirements management • Program leadership and teamwork • Risk and financial management • Supply chain management and logistics • Contract management and procurement • Special topics
Communicable Crises
This volume advances crisis management literature and our understanding of network governance, including temporary teams, task forces, and virtual organizations. It suggests that the distinction between networks and organizations is more about perception than reality.
From Bureaucracy to Hyperarchy in Netcentric and Quick Learning Organizations
This book examines the contradiction between bureaucracy and the egalitarian vision inspired by modern information technology. It argues that future knowledge-based relationships will be fluid, team-based, and collaborative, eliminating hierarchies and enhancing communication through shared standards and information symmetry.
Isolation and Paradox
The controlling idea for this study, and a major theme in classical and modern social analysis, is the distinction between public and private sectors in liberal societies. Professor Rusciano's purpose is to consider how the common ground defined by the use of the notion public in public opinion and public choice can lead to a revitalization of the term in modern social analysis. In Chapter 1, the author shows that no public choice procedure may distinguish consistently between public and private issues, public and private goods, and public and private decision rules. He also shows that no procedure may consistently define the public realm implied by the term public choice. To illustrate this...
From Feudalism to Capitalism
In his new book, Katz offers a new reading of Karl Marx's theory of history. The book re-examines two incompatible versions of historical materialism: one ascribes the primary cause of historical development to technological progress, the other to class struggle. Katz argues that these versions are inadequate, both as interpretations of Marx's theory and as explanations of the problems of historical change. His study distinguishes three different levels of analysis. The first level is Marx's own summaries of historical materialism, which typically award causal primacy to technology. The second level is Marx's historical studies of feudalism and the transition to capitalism, where class and c...
