17.462 Innovation in Military Organizations, Spring 2001
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Author(s)
Posen, Barry
Sapolsky, Harvey M.
Alternative Title
Innovation in Military Organizations
Date Issued
June 2001
Abstract
Explores the origins, rate, and impact of innovations in military organizations, doctrine, and weapons. Emphasis on organization theory approaches. Comparisons with nonmilitary and non-US experience included. From the course home page: Course Description Innovations have frequently determined the course of wars. This seminar has three purposes. One, it inquires into the causes of military innovation by examining a number of the most outstanding historical cases. Two, it views military innovations through the lens of organization theory to develop generalizations about the innovation process within militaries. Three, it uses the empirical study of military innovations as a way to examine the strength and credibility of hypotheses that organization theorists have generated about innovation in non-military organizations.
Subjects
Political science
security studies
Innovation
military organizations
war
history
cases
organization theory
empirical study
land warfare
battleships
airpower
submarine
missiles
armor
military affairs
Military art and science -- Technological innovations
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Science
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