Learning to Fight : Military Innovation and Change in the British Army, 1914-1918
- Submitting institution
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King's College London
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 107329216
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781107190795
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This monograph is an interdisciplinary study into the question of how military organisations learn from civilian experts, allies, and between military theatres. Drawing on methodologies from history and the social sciences, it puts forward a ‘networked approach to learning’ which presents a more complex view of organisational learning in large hierarchical organisations. The monograph is based on extensive primary research over five years with multiple research trips to Australia. Reviewers have deemed the book a ‘super contribution to the literature of military innovation’ and that it provides ‘a unique framework for the study of wartime adaptation
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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