Abstract
In this chapter forms of failure in the military are introduced and discussed. Failure in the military is intertwined with organizational culture and therefore with cultural standards of the specific society. Nonetheless the definition of failure and success follows the specific logic of the military and its different states of action: cold for training and hot for deployment. How do organizational culture and military success (or failure) work in these different states?
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Phyrrus was king of Epirus (after 300 B. C.) who triumphed over the Romans in several battles, but lost so many men, that Plutarch quotes him with the word “If we are victorious in one more battle, we shall be utterly ruined.”
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See also Badke-Schaub and Hofinger (2018).
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See also Tesch (2018).
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See also Kunert and Staar (2018).
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Elbe, M. (2018). Failure in Public Institutions: Characteristics of Organizational Culture in the Military. In: Kunert, S. (eds) Strategies in Failure Management. Management for Professionals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72757-8_16
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