Organizational images : towards a model of organizations
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, June 2012.
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| author | Krishnan, Neel |
| author2 | Roger Petersen. |
| author_facet | Roger Petersen. Krishnan, Neel |
| author_sort | Krishnan, Neel |
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| description | Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, June 2012. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/744642019-04-11T11:28:16Z Organizational images : towards a model of organizations Krishnan, Neel Roger Petersen. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Political Science. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Political Science. Political Science. Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, June 2012. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (p. 93-94). This study develops a general theoretical framework for the analysis of organizational behavior by focusing on the notion that organizations develop unique information-processing frameworks, which it labels "organizational images" or "images of operations," that strongly determine their behavior. The model is then used to draw inferences about the forms of counterinsurgency strategies practiced by the US military in the second war in Iraq and the war in Afghanistan. The paper argues that militaries tend to view the tasks they undertake in terms of the coercive application of force, and that this tendency tends to determine the forms of counterinsurgency strategies they chose, leading them to eschew strategies that rely on bargaining with enemy forces. The purported dominance of this coercive "image of operations" is then investigated in military field reports from the war in Afghanistan. by Krishnan, Neel. S.M. 2012-10-26T18:10:56Z 2012-10-26T18:10:56Z 2011 2012 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/74464 813458586 eng M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 94 p. application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| spellingShingle | Political Science. Krishnan, Neel Organizational images : towards a model of organizations |
| title | Organizational images : towards a model of organizations |
| title_full | Organizational images : towards a model of organizations |
| title_fullStr | Organizational images : towards a model of organizations |
| title_full_unstemmed | Organizational images : towards a model of organizations |
| title_short | Organizational images : towards a model of organizations |
| title_sort | organizational images towards a model of organizations |
| topic | Political Science. |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/74464 |
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