Book- Managing Military Organizations (Cass Military Studies) 1st Edition

This book deals with the processes and theories involved in managing military organizations in both peacetime and crisis conditions.

Examining the challenges faced by policymakers and military commanders in conducting military operations, this book considers the benefits of conventional management and organization theory

for the military.

At the same time, these essays recognize that the military should be considered as a highly individual organization, operating in

exceptional circumstances.

This awareness of the differences between the military and other organizations generates important lessons not only for the military but also for general organizations as it teaches them how to cope in exceptional, ‘hyper’ conditions.

These theoretical lessons are illustrated by case studies and experiences from recent military operations, such as those in Iraq

and Afghanistan.

This book will be of great interest to students of military studies, security studies and organizational studies.

Joseph Soeters chairs the department of management and organization studies and defence economy at the Netherlands Defense Academy and he is a professor in organizational sociology at Tilburg University.

Paul. C. van Fenema is an associate professor of organization studies at the Netherlands Defense Academy and Tilburg University.

Robert Beeres is an associate professor in the field of defense accounting and control (business administration) at the Netherlands Defense Academy and at Nyenrode Business School.

304 pages.