| WEEK # | TOPICS | READINGS |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Organizational Theory / Research |  Wilson, James Q. Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do It. New York, NY: Basic Books, 1991. ISBN: 9780465007851. |
| 2 | Recruitment, Socialization and Hierarchy | Ricks, Thomas E. Making the Corps. New York, NY: Scribner, 1997. ISBN: 9780684831091. Snider, Don M., and Gayle L. Watkins. "The Future of Army Professionalism: A Need for Renewal and Redefinition." Parameters 30, no. 3 (Autumn 2000). |
| 3 | Men Against Fire / Cohesion + Disintegration |
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| 4 | Friendly Fire / Organizational Failure | Snook, Scott. Friendly Fire: The Accidental Shootdown of U.S. Black Hawks over Northern Iraq. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780691005065. |
| 5 | Information Processing / Organization Learning | Rochlin, Gene, Todd La Porte, and Karlene Roberts. "The Self-designing, High Reliability Organization: Aircraft Carrier Flight Operations at Sea." Naval War College Review 40, no. 4 (Autumn 1987): 76-90. Doubler, Michael D. "The Schoolhouse of War." Closing with the Enemy: How GIs fought the War in Europe, 1944-1945. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1994, pp. 265-303. ISBN: 9780700606757. Michel, Marshall L., III. Clashes: Air Combat over North Vietnam, 1965-1972. Annapolis, MD: United States Naval Institute Press, 1997. ISBN: 9781557505859. |
| 6 | Organizational Evolution / Adjusting to the Environment | Chisholm, Donald. Waiting for Dead Men's Shoes: Origins and Development of the U.S. Navy's Officer Personnel System, 1793-1941. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. Chapters 1, 2, and 28. ISBN: 9780804735254. |
| 7 | Military Innovation / Alternative Theories | Rosen, Stephen Peter. "Thinking About Military Innovation." Chapter 1 in Winning the Next War: Innovation and the Modern Military. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1991, pp. 1-22. ISBN: 9780801425561. Posen, Barry. "Explaining military doctrine." Chapter 2 in The Sources of Military Doctrine: France, Britain, and Germany Between the World Wars. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1984, pp. 34-80. ISBN: 9780801416330. Cote, Owen. The Third Battle: Innovation in the U.S. Navy's Silent Cold War Struggle with Soviet Submarines. MIT Security Studies Program, March 2000. Sapolsky, Harvey M. Science and the Navy: The History of the Office of Naval Research. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990, chapters 2-4, pp. 9-81. ISBN: 9780691078472. |
| 8 | Influencing Organizations / The Limits of Outside Advice | Sapolsky, Harvey M. Science and the Navy: The History of the Office of Naval Research. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990, chapter 6, pp. 99-117. ISBN: 9780691078472. Needell, Allen A. Science, Cold War and the American State: Loyd V. Berkner and the Balance of Professional Ideals. New York, NY: Routledge, 2000. Chapters 6, 8, and 9, pp. 155-180 and 199-257. ISBN: 9789057026218. Gorn, Michael H. Harnessing the Genie: Science and Technology Forecasting for the Air Force, 1944-1986. Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History, U.S. Air Force, 1988. ISBN: 9780912799520. |
| 9 | Organizational Rigidity / Organizational Change | Michel, Marshall L., III. The 11 Days of Christmas: America's Last Vietnam Battle. San Francisco, CA: Encounter Books, 2001. ISBN: 9781893554245. Worden, Michael. The Rise of the Fighter Generals: The Problem of Air Force Leadership, 1945-1982. Maxwell Air Force Base, AL: Air University Press, 1997. ISBN: 9789997977496. |
| 10 | Organizational Design | |
| 11-12 | Student Papers |
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