HISTORY OF MANAGEMENT. THE CONTRIBUTION OF ROBERT McNAMARA TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE

Abstract

The idea of developing this theme by the team of authors from two prestigious institutions in the field of military higher education institutions mainly aims at demonstrating the necessity of carrying out general military management studies, emphasizing more eloquently, and on this line of approach, the managerial peculiarities of the military organization as a subsystem of the social system. In addition to the theoretical considerations that will base the choice of pioneering case study by Robert McNamara in the field of defense resource management, it is also highlighted, by developing previous authors’ ideas or recent references in the literature, the hypothesis that the army itself, institutionally speaking, has been an authentic model of managerial development.

Keywords

• management
• planning
• science
• defense resources