Creating Structures for Network-Centric Warfare: Perspectives from Organization Theory

Abstract

Combat organizations are increasingly faced with the challenge to adapt to new and diverse engagements. The pace of change is being accelerated by advances in information technology. This article offers perspectives from organization theory that can serve as design principles for enabling combat organizations to adopt flexible structures to cope with changes in the external environment. The specific design principles articulated are technology-enabled virtual organizations, organizational "semi-structures," and anticipating the future by launching probes. The authors discuss the implications of these principles for military organizations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1999
Accession Number
ADA458996

Entities

People

  • Carl R. Jones
  • Kishore Sengupta

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Adaptive Systems
  • Command And Control
  • Community Of Practice
  • Complex Adaptive Systems
  • Engineering
  • Environment
  • Information Operations
  • Information Systems
  • Military Organizations
  • Network Centric Warfare
  • New York
  • Organization Theory
  • Organizational Structure
  • Product Development
  • Software Development
  • Task Forces
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Military Training and Readiness Simulation
  • Systems Analysis and Design