A Defence of Contractors: Outsourcing Capacity to Wage War

Pratt, G; Barnwell, NS

A Defence of Contractors: Outsourcing Capacity to Wage War

Pratt, G Barnwell, NS

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Publisher:: ANZAM
Publication Type:: Conference Proceeding
Citation:: Proceedings of the 21st ANZAM 2007 Conference: Managing Our Intellectual and Social Capital, 2007, pp. 1 - 13
Issue Date:: 2007-01

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dc.contributor.author	Pratt, G	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Barnwell, NS	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Chapman, R	en_US
dc.date	2007-12-04	en_US
dc.date.issued	2007-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Proceedings of the 21st ANZAM 2007 Conference: Managing Our Intellectual and Social Capital, 2007, pp. 1 - 13	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	186308 140 2	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/2266
dc.description.abstract	Governments have greatly expanded their outsourcing activities over the last twenty years. A review of the various types of outsourcing is presented, along with the political implications associated with each. The paper then concentrates on the expansion of outsourcing associated with the Iraq war. A significant amount of the expenditure for that war is allocated to contractors to the US military for work to be undertaken in Iraq. This pushes the boundaries of what has normally been considered solely a government responsibility. Drawing upon the literature of US defence outsourcing, a model, termed the iron triangle has been developed to assist in analysis of US defence spending on private provision of goods and services.	en_US
dc.publisher	ANZAM	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Proceedings of the 21st ANZAM 2007 Conference: Managing Our Intellectual and Social Capital	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference	en_US
dc.title	A Defence of Contractors: Outsourcing Capacity to Wage War	en_US
dc.type	Conference Proceeding
utslib.location	Sydney, Australia	en_US
utslib.location.activity	Sydney, Australia	en_US
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dc.location.activity	Sydney, Australia	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business/Management Discipline
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Abstract:

Governments have greatly expanded their outsourcing activities over the last twenty years. A review of the various types of outsourcing is presented, along with the political implications associated with each. The paper then concentrates on the expansion of outsourcing associated with the Iraq war. A significant amount of the expenditure for that war is allocated to contractors to the US military for work to be undertaken in Iraq. This pushes the boundaries of what has normally been considered solely a government responsibility. Drawing upon the literature of US defence outsourcing, a model, termed the iron triangle has been developed to assist in analysis of US defence spending on private provision of goods and services.

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