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Build the golf course first’ – an organisational and strategic management perspective on UK defence reviews / Nemeth, Bence; Dew, Nicholas

Nemeth, Bence	Journal Article
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UK defence reviews have generated a flourishing academic debate for the past one-and-a-half decades. Still, the scholarship has hardly applied organisation and strategic management concepts regarding these reviews and therefore omits relevant insights to understand the outcomes arising from these important strategic documents. This article proposes the organisation and strategic management scholarship can contribute significantly to explaining the dynamics of strategy-making and implementation of the UK’s previous and forthcoming defence reviews. The avoidance of budgetary losses and maintenance of corporate autonomy by any formal organisation – including the UK Ministry of Defence – are particularly powerful concepts for explaining the dynamics of strategy-making and implementation. These concepts are critical for understanding how the UK defence budget is actually spent and how its defence reviews are developed and implemented.

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Strategic management ; Strategy ; UK Ministry of Defence ; Organisational management ; UK defence reviews

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Who is a ‘Veteran’?: understanding definitions of the term among the British Public / Gribble, Rachael; Wessely, Simon ; Klein, Susan; Alexander, David A

Wessely, Simon	Journal Article
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There are currently an estimated 2.8–3.8 million people in the UK who fulfil the UK Ministry of Defence definition of a military veteran (a minimum of one day’s military service). Despite these numbers, there is little research on who the public views as a veteran and how this differs across society. Rachael Gribble, Simon Wessely, Susan Klein, David A Alexander, Christopher Dandeker and Nicola T Fear examine public conceptualisations of the term ‘veteran’ compared with definitions from the Ministry of Defence and those of ex-service personnel themselves. Factors associated with commonly endorsed definitions are identified.

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Military Veterans ; Veteran ; UK Ministry of Defence ; Christopher Dandeker ; Nicola T Fear

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