Determining the Best Loci of Knowledge, Responsibilities and Decision Rights in Major Acquisition Organizations

Abstract

The DoD is a large bureaucratic rule-intensive organization that may not be suited well for its environment. Building upon prior research of acquisition centralization and knowledge dynamics we employ computational methods to assess the behavior and performance of different organizational designs in varying environments. Our results reinforce Contingency Theory and suggest particular characteristics of different acquisition environments make one organizational form relatively more or less appropriate than another. Practically answers to our research questions have direct and immediate application to acquisition leaders and policy makers. Theoretically we generalize to broad classes of organizations and prescribe a novel set of organizational design guides.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 30, 2005
Accession Number
ADA480306

Entities

People

  • John Dillard
  • Mark E. Nissen

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Aircrafts
  • Combinatorial Analysis
  • Command And Control
  • Complex Systems
  • Computational Science
  • Experimental Design
  • Governments
  • Information Exchange
  • Information Processing
  • Information Systems
  • Management Personnel
  • National Governments
  • Organizational Structure
  • Public Policy
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).
  • Theoretical Analysis.