Survey and Annotated Bibliography on Literature Pertaining to Internal Financial Incentives in System Acquisition.

Abstract

This document is essentially a literature survey and it is motivated by on-going research on internal financial incentives in systems acquisition. The purpose of this research is to determine financial and non-financial consequences of internal incentives used in the acquisition of weapons systems. The research addresses itself only to the use of incentive systems within DOD (i.e., internal incentive systems), and not to contractual (i.e., external) incentive systems that operate between the Government and private contractors. Our basic approach is to study such incentives by considering the impact of various budgetary constraints over groups of projects at various levels in the Defense hierarchy and at various stages of the system acquisition process. A particular focus of attention is Design-to-Cost as an internal financial incentive.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1978
Accession Number
ADA052813

Entities

People

  • Oreet Zohar
  • Paul R. Kleindorfer
  • Robert W. Blanning

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

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  • Air Force
  • Business Administration
  • Commerce
  • Congress
  • Contracts
  • Department Of Defense
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • Information Processing
  • Interagency Coordination
  • National Security
  • Organization Theory
  • Organizational Structure
  • Political Systems
  • Public Administration
  • Public Policy
  • Recreation

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  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Economics
  • Library and Information Science