Acquisition and Its Theoretical Foundations: A Phenomenon at the Crossroads of Phenomena

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Author(s): Sophie Lefeez (University of Paris (Sorbonne), France)
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 16
Source title: Emerging Strategies in Defense Acquisitions and Military Procurement
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Kevin Burgess (Cranfield University, UK)and Peter Antill (Cranfield University, UK)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0599-0.ch005

Keywords: Business Science Reference / Government & Law / Public & Sector Management / Public and Sector Management

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Armament issues are hardly dealt with by the French academics, there is thus no specific theoretical framework available. Existing theories to study technical objects have been designed for civilian artefacts and the specific features of the military market challenge their full applicability to a military research object. As for existing approaches to armament, they are either insufficient or have become obsolete. This questions the need of specific theories to fit with military specificities. Given how complex defence acquisition is there is a case to be made for introducing more disciplines and practising mix-theories in order to gain richer insights.

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