Conquering Resources: The Growth and Decline of the Pla's Science and Technology Commission for National Defense Contributor(s): Ostrov, Benjamin C. (Author), Suttmeier, Richard P. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0873326547 ISBN-13: 9780873326544 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $142.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 1992 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Technology & Engineering | Military Science - Business & Economics - Social Science | Demography |
Dewey: 355.070 |
LCCN: 90026809 |
Series: Studies on Contemporary China |
Physical Information: 176 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This case study seeks to explain how organizations grow and the limits to that growth when an organization engaged in policy implementation lacks the resources necessary to achieve policy goals. The discussion of the basis of conflict that emerges from this study is of lasting significance. For years, studies of this issue have pointed to various models of factionalism, stressing the informal character of the groups involved. In Professor Ostrov's study, however, conflict is shown to have a supra-Cultural Revolutionary institutional basis in this and other key units. |