SOF Intrapreneurship: How SOF Can Leverage Entrepreneurship within the Military Bureaucracy to Manage Complexity

Abstract

In an environment steeped in complexity, military organizations must be able to respond to change. By drawing from the fields of complexity and entrepreneurship and from military innovation literature, we create a concept called special operations forces (SOF) intrapreneurship. SOF intrapreneurship leverages SOF characteristics to increase innovative capacity. SOF intrapreneurship balances the tensions of entrepreneurship with the inherent characteristics of the military bureaucracy. The concept provides the tools to navigate, iterate, and pivot, giving organizations the framework for exploring and implementing innovations. SOF intrapreneurship, therefore, provides a way for SOF to respond to changes in the environment and, ultimately, remain an effective and relevant choice for decision and policy makers in an environment of constant change.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2021
Accession Number
AD1150828

Entities

People

  • Erich Kuehnle
  • Oerjan Berntsen

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Adaptive Systems
  • Air Force
  • Asymmetric Warfare
  • California
  • Climate Change
  • Complex Adaptive Systems
  • Department Of Defense
  • Disruptive Technology
  • Doctrine
  • Education
  • Governments
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Psychology
  • Reasoning
  • Recreation
  • Special Operations Forces
  • Unconventional Warfare
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

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