A Failure of Intelligence

Sandow-Quirk, Mary

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Author(s): Mary Sandow-Quirk

Publication date (Print): June 2002

Journal: Prometheus

Publisher: Pluto Journals

Keywords: Cia, Information Dissemination, Intelligence, National Security, Organizational Failure

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Recent events have made the inadequacies of intelligence services in even the most powerful countries glaringly obvious and various causes for these failures have been canvassed. Many of these problems have arisen from a limited understanding of the complexities of each phase of the intelligence cycle as illustrated by cases drawn from a variety of intelligence contexts.

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Journal ID (publisher-id): cpro20

Journal ID (archive): CPRO

Title: Prometheus

Subtitle: Critical Studies in Innovation

Publisher: Pluto Journals

ISSN (Print): 0810-9028

ISSN (Electronic): 1470-1030

Publication date (Print): June 2002

Volume: 20

Issue: 2

Pages: 131-142

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Publisher ID: 10032448 Coden ID: Prometheus, Vol. 20, No. 2, June 2002, pp. 131-142

DOI: 10.1080/08109020210137510

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Allee V.. 1997. . The Knowledge Evolution: Expanding Organizational Intelligence . , p. 111 Boston : : Butterworth-Heinemann. .
Feldman M. and March J.. 1981. . 'Information in organizations as signal and symbol'. . Administrative Science Quarterly . , Vol. 26:: 178
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Carley K.. 1996. . “'An approach for relating social structure to cognitive structure'. ”. In Information Seeking: An Organizational Dilemma . , Edited by: Johnson J.. p. 79 Westport : : Quorum. .
Chen C. and Hernon P.. 1982. . Information Seeking: Assessing and Anticipating User Needs . , New York : : Neal-Schuman. .
Hayek F. A. and Tsoukas H.. 1996. . 'The firm as a distributed knowledge system: a constructionist approach'. . Strategic Management Journal . , Winter;: 11––25. .
March J.. 1991. . 'Exploration and exploitation in organizational learning'. . Organization Science . , Vol. 2((1)): 85
Arrow K.. 1984. . “On the agenda of organizations'. ”. In The Economics of Information: The Collected Papers of Kenneth J. Arrow . , p. 171 Cambridge , MA : : Harvard University Press. .
Jéquier N. and Dedijer S.. 1987. . “'Information, knowledge and intelligence: a general overview'. ”. In Intelligence for Economic Development . , Edited by: Jéquier N. and Dedijer S.. p. 17 Oxford : : Berg. .
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Davenport T. H.. 1997. . Information Ecology . , p. 92––93. . New York : : Oxford University Press. .
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[1] Jones R., Sigurdson J. and Tågerud Y.. , eds. 1992. . “'Intelligence as an academic discipline'. ”. In The Intelligent Corporation: The Privatisation of Intelligence . , p. 71 London : : Taylor Graham. .

[2] Palmer B.. 1991. . Strategic Intelligence for Law Enforcement . , p. 22 Canberra : : Palmer. .

[3] Andrew C.. 1996. . “'American Presidents and their intelligence communities'. ”. In Intelligence Analysis and Assessment . , Edited by: Charters D.. p. 98 London : : Cass. .

[4] Wilensky H.. 1967. . Organizational Intelligence . , p. 42 New York : : Basic Books. .

[5] Hughes-Wilson J.. 1999. . Military Intelligence Blunders . , p. 38 London : : Robinson. .

[8] Simon H. and Macdonald S.. 1995. . 'Learning to change: an information perspective on learning in the organization'. . Organization Science . , Vol. 6((5)): 560

[9] McDowell D.. 1998. . Strategic Intelligence . , p. 149 Cooma : : Istana Enterprises. .

[10] Allee V.. 1997. . The Knowledge Evolution: Expanding Organizational Intelligence . , p. 111 Boston : : Butterworth-Heinemann. .

[11] Feldman M. and March J.. 1981. . 'Information in organizations as signal and symbol'. . Administrative Science Quarterly . , Vol. 26:: 178

[12] Jones R.. 1998. . Most Secret War . , p. 73––74. . London : : Wordsworth. .

[14] Carley K.. 1996. . “'An approach for relating social structure to cognitive structure'. ”. In Information Seeking: An Organizational Dilemma . , Edited by: Johnson J.. p. 79 Westport : : Quorum. .

[15] Chen C. and Hernon P.. 1982. . Information Seeking: Assessing and Anticipating User Needs . , New York : : Neal-Schuman. .

[16] Hayek F. A. and Tsoukas H.. 1996. . 'The firm as a distributed knowledge system: a constructionist approach'. . Strategic Management Journal . , Winter;: 11––25. .

[17] March J.. 1991. . 'Exploration and exploitation in organizational learning'. . Organization Science . , Vol. 2((1)): 85

[18] Arrow K.. 1984. . “On the agenda of organizations'. ”. In The Economics of Information: The Collected Papers of Kenneth J. Arrow . , p. 171 Cambridge , MA : : Harvard University Press. .

[19] Jéquier N. and Dedijer S.. 1987. . “'Information, knowledge and intelligence: a general overview'. ”. In Intelligence for Economic Development . , Edited by: Jéquier N. and Dedijer S.. p. 17 Oxford : : Berg. .

[21] Baumard P.. 1992. . 'From noticing to making sense: using intelligence to develop strategy'. . International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence . , Vol. 7((1)): 36

[22] Schulz G.. 1993. . Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State . , p. 864 New York : : Scribners. .

[23] Simon H.. 1971. . “'Designing organizations for an information rich world'. ”. In Computers, Communications and the Public Interest . , Edited by: Greenberger M.. p. 40 Baltimore : : Johns Hopkins Press. .

[24] Davenport T. H.. 1997. . Information Ecology . , p. 92––93. . New York : : Oxford University Press. .

[26] March J.. 1999. . “'Understanding how decisions happen in organizations'. ”. In The Pursuit of Organizational Intelligence . , Edited by: March J.. p. 28 Oxford : : Blackwell. .

[27] March J.. 1994. . A Primer on Decision Making: How Decisions Happen . , p. viii––ix. . New York : : Basic Books. .

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