A note on Dupuy's QJM and new square law

Geldenhuys, G.; Botha, E.

doi:10.5784/10-0-455

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“…This model involved the identification and quantification of 73 battlefield performance variables, pertaining to weapons, terrain, weather, season, air superiority, posture, mobility, vulnerability, tactical air effects and intangible factors such as leadership and morale (Dupuy, 1985(Dupuy, , 1986. While not without its critics (Brown, 1986(Brown, , 1987Geldenhuys and Botha, 1994) and extensions (Rowland, 2006), the QJM in general has remained robust under criticism (Dupuy, 1986(Dupuy, , 1987.…”

Section: Ijoa 244mentioning

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Organizational learning capability and battlefield performance

Visser

2016

IJOA

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Purpose While intended as a bridge between the concepts of learning organization and organizational learning, current conceptualizations of organizational learning capability still predominantly lean toward the learning organization side, specifically directed at profit firms. The purpose of this paper is to propose a four-dimensional model of organization learning capability that leans more toward the organizational learning side, specifically directed at nonprofit and government organizations in general, and army organizations in particular. This model is applied to the British Army in the Second World War. Design/methodology/approach The paper entails a secondary analysis of historical and military sources and data. Findings It is found that the British Army possessed only a moderate learning capability, which can be plausibly, but not exclusively, related to differences in battlefield performance between the British and the German Army in the Second World War. Research limitations/implications The research scope of the paper is limited to the analysis of one particular army in the Second World War. Implications for theory reside in the importance of organizational learning capability and its dimensions to the effectiveness of “lessons learned” processes inside organizations. Practical implications The paper has clear practical implications for armies and organizations that resemble armies in one or more aspects, like prisons, correctional facilities, police forces, hospitals, mental institutions and fire departments. Originality/value The paper ranks among the first organizational papers to analyze army operations and functioning from the perspective of organizational learning capability.

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Section: Ijoa 244mentioning

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Organizational learning capability and battlefield performance

Visser

2016

IJOA

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“…44 Although for different reasons not widely recognized as states, these de facto entities are said to 'internally' measure up to effective statehood. 45 Furthermore, the fact that they often entertain various diplomatic relations with recognized states and conclude treaties shows their capacity to enter into external relations. 46 The case of Somaliland is illustrative because, in contrast to other cases, it is often seen as not having violated any pre-emptory norms of international law in its (attempted) secession.…”

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To Be or Not to Be: The Ontological Predicament of State Creation in International Law

Grzybowski¹

2017

European Journal of International Law

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International law is classically based on a system of states whose members it attempts to identify by virtue of their effectiveness, their recognition by other states, and their creation in accordance with the rules of international law. In this article, I illustrate the indeterminacy of these three dimensions and argue that assessments of individual state creations are instead necessarily based on blunt, but silent, ontological commitments to any potential state's full presence or absence. While the 'great debate' between declaratory and constitutive doctrines of recognition has emphasized, but not finally determined, the ontology of the state, attempts to find compromises between material effectiveness and constitutive recognition as well as the turn towards the proper legal regulation of state creation have only bracketed and invisibilized its decisive role. The deconstruction of state identifications reveals an essentially empty state ontology that confronts scholars and practitioners with the predicament of having to ultimately presuppose any particular state's existence or its absence. This not only allows for reflecting on the stakes of individual assessments but also shows how all state identifications inevitably reproduce the hegemonic image of an exclusive and neatly delineated state system that brings its unruly fringes under control time and again.

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“…This Model involves the identification and quantification of 73 variables, pertaining to weapons, terrain, weather, season, air superiority, posture, mobility, vulnerability, tactical air effects and intangible factors such as leadership and morale. While not uncontested (e.g., Brown, 1986Brown, , 1987Geldenhuys & Botha, 1994), the QJM in general has stood up well under criticism (Dupuy, 1986(Dupuy, , 1987Nutter, 2004).…”

Section: German and Us Battlefield Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

Configurations of human resource practices and battlefield performance: A comparison of two armies

Visser

2010

Human Resource Management Review

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A note on Dupuy's QJM and new square law

Cited by 3 publications

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Organizational learning capability and battlefield performance

Organizational learning capability and battlefield performance

To Be or Not to Be: The Ontological Predicament of State Creation in International Law

Configurations of human resource practices and battlefield performance: A comparison of two armies

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