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Definitions of ‘management’ prove singularly unhelpful when considering the issue of defence management and jointery’. The Oxford English Dictionary, for example, offers such synonyms for the verb (both transitive and intransitive) ‘to manage’ as ‘to handle; wield; control the affairs of; take charge of; gain one’s ends with, to administer (finances etc); to carry on successfully or otherwise; to succeed in accomplishing’. ‘Management’, it continues, ’is the action or manner of managing’, but also sees management to mean ‘the use of contrivance for effecting some purpose’.1 Though these terms offer some flavour of how ‘management’ may be perceived, none is precisely what is intended when the Ministry of Defence (MOD) talks in terms of ‘efficient management’ in respect of ‘the delivery of public services’.2
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Edmonds, M. (2002). Defence Management and the Impact of ‘Jointery’. In: Dorman, A., Smith, M., Uttley, M. (eds) The Changing Face of Military Power. Cormorant Security Studies Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230502161_8
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