464
Views
5
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

Special Operations and Design Thinking: Through the Looking Glass of Organizational Knowledge Production

REFERENCES

  • Banach, S., & Ryan, A. (2009). The art of design: A design methodology. Military Review, March–April, 105–115.
  • Baudrillard, J. (2001). Simulacra and simulation (S. Glaser, Trans.). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
  • Berger, P., & Luckmann, T. (1966). The social construction of reality: A treatise in the sociology of knowledge. New York, NY: Anchor Books.
  • Bousquet, A. (2008a). Chaoplexic warfare or the future of military organization. International affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs 1944–), 84(5), 915–929.
  • Bousquet, A. (2008b). Cyberneticizing the American war machine: Science and computers in the Cold War. Cold War History, 8(1), 77–102.
  • Bousquet, A. (2009). The scientific way of warfare: Order and chaos on the battlefields of modernity. London, United Kingdom: Hurst.
  • Bousquet, A., & Curtis, S. (2011). Beyond models and metaphors: Complexity theory, systems thinking, and international relations. Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 24(1), 43–62.
  • Builder, C. (1989). The masks of war: American military styles in strategy and analysis. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press.
  • Conklin, J. (2008). Wicked problems and social complexity. In Jeff Conklin, Dialogue mapping: Building shared understanding of wicked problems. CogNexus Institute. Available from http://www.cognexus.org
  • Edwards, P. (1996). The closed world: Computers and the politics of discourse in Cold War America. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  • Gioia, D., & Pitre, E. (1990). Multiparadigm perspectives on theory building. Academy of Management Review, 15(4), 584–602.
  • Gondo, M., & Amis, J. (2013). Variations in practice adoption: The roles of conscious reflection and discourse. Academy of Management Review, 38(2), 229–247.
  • Graves, T., & Stanley, B. (2013). Design and operational art: A practical approach to teaching the army design methodology. Military Review, July–August, 53–59.
  • Grigsby, W., Gorman, S., Marr, J., McLamb, J., Stewart, M., & Schifferle, P. (2011). Integrated planning: The operations process, design, and the military decision making process. Military Review, January–February, 28–35.
  • Grome, A., Crandall, B., & Rasmussen, L. (2012). Incorporating Army design methodology into Army operations: Barriers and recommendations for facilitating integration (Research report 1954). Fort Leavenworth, KS: U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences.
  • Guerlac, H. (1986). Vauban: The impact of science on war. In P. Paret (Ed.), Makers of modern strategy: From Machiavelli to the nuclear age (pp. 64–90). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
  • Hatch, M. J., & Yanow, D. (2008). Methodology by metaphor: Ways of seeing in painting and research. Organization Studies, 29(1), 23–44.
  • Headquarters, Department of the Army. (2012). Army doctrine publication 5-0: The operations process. Washington, DC: U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command.
  • Joint Staff, J-7 Joint and Coalition Warfighting. (2011). Planner’s handbook for operational design (Version 1.0). Suffolk, VA: USJFCOM Joint Doctrine Division.
  • Kinsella, E. (2006). Constructivist underpinnings in Donald Schon’s theory of reflective practice: Echoes of Nelson Goodman. Reflective Practice, 7(3), 277–286.
  • Kuhn, T. (1996). The structure of scientific revolutions (3rd ed.). Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
  • Lewis, M., & Grimes, A. (1999). Metatriangulation: Building theory from multiple paradigms. Academy of Management Review, 24(4), 672–690.
  • Lewis, P. (2010). Peter Berger and his critics: The significance of emergence. Springer Science+Business Media, 47, 207–213.
  • Madden, D., Hoffmann, D., Johnson, M., Krawchuk, F., Peters, J., Robinson, L., & Doll, A. (2014). Special warfare: The missing middle in U.S. coercive options. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation.
  • Martin, G. (2011). Tell me how to do this thing called design! Small Wars Journal. Retrieved from http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/journal/docs-temp/729-martin.pdf
  • Martin, G. (2015). Deniers of “the truth”: Why an agnostic approach to warfare is key. Military Review, January–February, 42–51.
  • Murden, S. (2013). Purpose in mission design: Understanding the four kinds of operational approach. Military Review, May–June, 53–62.
  • Pudas, T., & Drapeau, M. (2009). Technology and the changing character of war. In P. Cronin (Ed.), Global strategic assessment 2009: America’s security role in a changing world (pp. 63–64). Washington, DC: Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University Press.
  • Reed, M. (2005). Reflections on the “realist turn” in organization and management studies. Journal of Management Studies, 42(8), 1621–1644.
  • Rizer, G. (1980). Sociology: A multiple paradigm science. Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
  • Romjue, J. (1997). American Army doctrine for the post–Cold War. Fort Monroe, VA: Military History Office, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command.
  • Rothstein, H. (2007). Less is more: The problematic future of irregular warfare in an era of collapsing states. Third World Quarterly, 28(2), 275–294.
  • Ryan, A. (2011). Applications of complex systems to operational design. Booz Allen Hamilton.
  • Schon, D. (1987). The crisis of professional knowledge and the pursuit of an epistemology of practice. In L. Barnes, C. R. Christensen, & A. Hansen (Eds.), Teaching and the case method: Instructor’s guide (pp. 241–254). Boston, MA: President and Fellows of Harvard College.
  • Schon, D. (1992a). Educating the reflective legal practitioner. Clinical Law Review, 2(231), 231–250.
  • Schon, D. (1992b). The theory of inquiry: Dewey’s legacy to education. Curriculum Inquiry, 22(2), 119–139.
  • Schultz, M., & Hatch, M. J. (1996). Living with multiple paradigms: The case of paradigm interplay in organizational culture studies. Academy of Management Review, 21(2), 529–557.
  • Shaffer, L. (2010). Beyond Berger and Luckmann’s concept of “recipe knowledge”: Simple versus standardized recipes. Sociological Viewpoints, Spring, 55–63.
  • Stark, W. (1958). The sociology of knowledge: An essay in aid of a deeper understanding of the history of ideas. London, United Kingdom: Routledge.
  • Taleb, N. (2007). The black swan. New York, NY: Random House.
  • Tsoukas, H. (2005). Complex knowledge: Studies in organizational epistemology. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
  • Tsoukas, H., & Chia, R. (2002). On organizational becoming: Rethinking organizational change. Organization Science, 13(5), 567–582.
  • Tsoukas, H., & Dooley, K. (2011). Introduction to the special issue: Towards the ecological style: Embracing complexity in organizational research. Organizational Studies, 32(6), 729–735.
  • Tsoukas, H., & Vladimirou, E. (2001). What is organizational knowledge? Journal of Management Studies, 38(7), 973–993.
  • U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command. (2014, October 7). The U.S. Army operating concept: Win in a complex world. Washington, DC: Department of the Army.
  • U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff. (2011). Joint publication 3-0: joint operations. Suffolk, VA: U.S. Department of Defense.
  • U.S. White House. (2015, February). National security strategy. Washington, DC: The White House.
  • Weick, K. (1993). The collapse of sensemaking in organizations: The Mann Gulch disaster. Administrative Science Quarterly, 38(4), 628–652.
  • Weick, K. (2004). Rethinking organizational design. In R. Boland Jr. & F. Collopy (Eds.), Managing as designing (pp. 36–53). Stanford, CA: Stanford Business Books.
  • Weick, K. (2006). The role of imagination in the organizing of knowledge. European Journal of Information Systems, 15, 446–452.
  • Weick, K. (2011). Reflections: Change agents as change poets: On reconnecting flux and hunches. Journal of Change Management, 11(1), 7–20.
  • Welsh, M. A., & Dehler, G. (2012). Combining critical reflection and design thinking to develop integrative learners. Journal of Management Education, 37(6), 771–802.
  • Zweibelson, B. (2015). An awkward tango: Pairing traditional military planning to design and why it currently fails to work. Journal of Military and Strategic Studies, 16(1), 11–41.
  • Zweibelson, B., Martin, G., & Paparone, C. (2013). Frame reflection: A critical review of U.S. military approaches to complex situations. Retrieved from https://www.ooda.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Frame-Reflection_A-Critical-Review-of-US-Military-Approaches-to-Complex-Situations-final.pdf

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.