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Defense Acquisition, Public Administration, and Pragmatism

Defense Acquisition, Public Administration, and Pragmatism

Keith F. Snider
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 19
ISBN13: 9781522579120|ISBN10: 1522579125|EISBN13: 9781522579137
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7912-0.ch039
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Snider, Keith F. "Defense Acquisition, Public Administration, and Pragmatism." National Security: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2019, pp. 774-792. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7912-0.ch039

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Snider, K. F. (2019). Defense Acquisition, Public Administration, and Pragmatism. In I. Management Association (Ed.), National Security: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice (pp. 774-792). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7912-0.ch039

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Snider, Keith F. "Defense Acquisition, Public Administration, and Pragmatism." In National Security: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 774-792. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7912-0.ch039

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Abstract

This chapter explores the relationship of U.S. defense management to public administration. It argues that public administration, as a field of study, plays a minor role in defense acquisition, because acquisition has unique characteristics that separate it from the mainstream of the field. The tenuous connections between acquisition and public administration have led to an issue of academic legitimacy in that the discipline has failed to respond to the needs of acquisition professionals. The chapter then presents a discussion and illustration of philosophical pragmatism as a potential contribution of administrative theory to acquisition practice, and it concludes with thoughts on the potential for acquisition to adopt pragmatism as a guiding way for thought and practice.

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