The Iron Triangle: The Politics of Defense Contracting

1982 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 958
Author(s):  
Andrew J. Pierre ◽  
Gordon Adams
Keyword(s):  
Defense Contracting ◽  
Iron Triangle

The Politics of Defense Contracting: The Iron Triangle.

1983 ◽  
Vol 98 (2) ◽  
pp. 333
Author(s):  
Thomas L. McNaugher ◽  
Gordon Adams
Keyword(s):  
Defense Contracting ◽  
Iron Triangle

The Relation between Cost Shifting and Segment Profitability in the Defense-Contracting Industry

2002 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
pp. 949-969 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annie S. McGowan ◽  
Valaria P. Vendrzyk
Keyword(s):  
Market Power ◽  
Government Contracts ◽  
Cost Shifting ◽  
Defense Contractors ◽  
Defense Contracting ◽  
Government Work ◽  
Defense Contracts

We test the conjecture from prior research that defense contractors' excess profitability in the 1980s stemmed from their ability to shift common overhead costs to government contracts that typically allow cost reimbursement or price renegotiation (Rogerson 1992; Thomas and Tung 1992; Lichtenberg 1992). Although we confirm prior evidence that defense contractors enjoyed abnormally high profitability on their government work in the 1984–1989 period (a period of relatively low competition for defense contracts), we find no evidence that this excess profitability is attributable to cost shifting. In addition, we find no evidence that the Top 100 defense contractors (firms that likely wield above-average market power) are able to use cost shifting to exploit a lack of competition in the industry. Our results suggest that, contrary to the conjectures in prior research, the unusually high profitability reported on government contracts in 1984–1989 is more likely attributable to nonaccounting explanations than to cost shifting.

THE RESILIENCE OF JAPAN'S IRON TRIANGLE

Asian Survey ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 41 (5) ◽  
pp. 865-895 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Colignon ◽  
Chikako Usui
Keyword(s):  
Iron Triangle

scholarly journals Multi-criteria methods for ranking project activities

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yossi Hadad ◽  
Baruch Keren ◽  
Zohar Laslo
Keyword(s):  
Project Manager ◽  
Resources Allocation ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Ranking Methods ◽  
Analytical Hierarchical Process ◽  
Execution Phase ◽  
Allocation Process ◽  
Iron Triangle ◽  
And Control ◽  
Selection Of

This paper presents multi-criteria methods for ranking project activities according to several ranking indexes. The methods are based on the Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP), on Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), and on the use of common ranking indexes. This paper reviews ranking indexes of project activities for project management tasks. The ranking of project activities in one project is applicable for focusing the attention of the project manager on important activities. The selection of the appropriate ranking indexes should be done in accordance with managerial purposes: 1) Paying attention to activities throughout the execution phase and in the resources allocation process, in order meet pre-determined qualities, and to deliver the project on time and within budget, i.e., to accomplish the project within the "iron triangle" 2) Setting priorities in order to share the managerial care and control among the activities. The paper proposes to use multi-criteria ranking methods in order to rank the activities in a case where several ranking indexes are selected.

scholarly journals Identification of the specificity of functionality of the military-industrial complex

2020 ◽  
pp. 35-49
Author(s):  
Dmitrii Azarov
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Military Industrial Complex ◽  
Iron Triangle ◽  
Scientific Representations ◽  
Basic Transformation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Military

The subject of this research is the economic relations formed as a result of operation and development of military-industrial complex, which affect economic growth of the country. The object of this research is the military-industrial complex. The goal consists in determination of peculiarities of functionality of military-industrial complex. The author explores such aspects of the topic, as the evolution of approaches towards studying the military-industrial complex, as well as nuances of its functionality. Special attention is paid to the structure of military-industrial complex, highlighting its key components and determining interaction between them. The author’s main contribution lies in the proposed interpretation of the military-industrial complex, formulated as a result of critical analysis of relevant scientific representations on its essence, and reflecting the specifics of its functionality. The novelty consists in the analysis and systematization of scientific approaches to definition of military-industrial complex; its structural perception in form of modified scheme of O. Williamson with indication of major stakeholders and relations between them, which is based on the concept of “iron triangle”; identification of basic transformation trends of the military-industrial complex, as well as characteristics that differentiate it from other economic macro-sectors.

scholarly journals The Third Republic as Manager: Labor Policy in the Naval Shipyards, 1892–1920

1985 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Reid
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Third Republic ◽  
Labor Policy ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Capital Investments ◽  
Managerial Control ◽  
Private Industry ◽  
Defense Contracting ◽  
The Third ◽  
Technological Advances

Recently there has been great interest in the re-organization of work and its effects on labor relations during the last decades of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century, particularly in the metal-working and machine industries. Studies of this issue have generally been framed in terms of technological advances in the steel industry in the second half of the nineteenth century, the exigencies of the market during and after the Great Depression of the late nineteenth century, and the efforts of skilled labor to defend its position on the shopfloor. In France and elsewhere the importance of national and international arms sales before 1914 made the armaments industry one of the main arenas of these developments. Until mid-century the defense industry and the business of defense had been under state control in France. Largely for economic reasons, however, the Third Republic turned over increasing amounts of defense contracting, especially in shipbuilding, to private industry. The Etablissements Schneider at Le Creusot, the Compagnie des Aciéries de la Marine at Saint-Chamond and other large private firms established themselves as profitable arms manufacturers. National and foreign government contracts for weaponry encouraged these companies to make large capital investments, to rationalize work to permit greater managerial control, and to develop authoritarian paternalist systems of labor management.

An Iron Triangle

2021 ◽  
pp. 170-192
Author(s):  
D. Scott Tharp
Keyword(s):  
Iron Triangle
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