Arms and innovation : entrepreneurship and alliances in the twenty-first-century defense industry /
With many of the most important new military systems of the past decade produced by small firms that won competitive government contracts, defense-industry consultant James Hasik argues in Arms and Innovation that small firms have a number of advantages relative to their bigger competitors. Such fir...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2008.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | With many of the most important new military systems of the past decade produced by small firms that won competitive government contracts, defense-industry consultant James Hasik argues in Arms and Innovation that small firms have a number of advantages relative to their bigger competitors. Such firms are marked by an entrepreneurial spirit and fewer bureaucratic obstacles, and thus can both be more responsive to changes in the environment and more strategic in their planning. This is demonstrated, Hasik shows, by such innovation in military technologies as those that protect troops from roads. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (189 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-183) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780226318899 0226318893 1281957100 9781281957108 |