The Tender Ship: Governmental Management of Technological Change, <i>by Arthur M. Squires</i> (Birkauser, Boston, 1986) pp. xix + 247, SFr62, ISBN 0 81673312 X

Arnow, Kathryn Smul

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The Tender Ship: Governmental Management of Technological Change, by Arthur M. Squires (Birkauser, Boston, 1986) pp. xix + 247, SFr62, ISBN 0 81673312 X

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Author(s): Kathryn Arnow ^a

Publication date (Print): December 1987

Journal: Prometheus

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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): December 1987

Volume: 5

Issue: 2

Pages: 448-451

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Publisher ID: 8629462 Coden ID: Prometheus, Vol. 5, No. 2, 1987: pp. 448–451

DOI: 10.1080/08109028708629462

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The “tender ship” of the title is the American ship of state “… top heavy with a dead weight of … governmental bureaucracy” (p. 232).
Christopher Layton, Ten Innovations, George Allen and Unwin, London, 1972; Thomas L. McNaugher, The M16 Controversies: Military Organizations and Weapons Acquisitions, Praeger, New York, 1984; Seymour Melman, Profits Without Production, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1983; C. Northcote Parkinson, Parkinson's Law, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1957; Gordon Tullock, The Politics of Bureaucracy, Public Affairs Press, Washington, D.C., 1965.

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[1] The “tender ship” of the title is the American ship of state “… top heavy with a dead weight of … governmental bureaucracy” (p. 232).

[2] Christopher Layton, Ten Innovations, George Allen and Unwin, London, 1972; Thomas L. McNaugher, The M16 Controversies: Military Organizations and Weapons Acquisitions, Praeger, New York, 1984; Seymour Melman, Profits Without Production, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1983; C. Northcote Parkinson, Parkinson's Law, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1957; Gordon Tullock, The Politics of Bureaucracy, Public Affairs Press, Washington, D.C., 1965.