This article presents the findings of a study into the moral judgement of Dutch officers, officer-candidates and university students. The study was based on the Moral Judgement Test developed by Lind, which aims to analyze the moral skills of respondents in judging ethical dilemmas. In this quantitative …

Since western societies are threatened by culture-related terrorist attacks, multicultural attitudes are changing and intercultural tensions induce ethnic groups to stand opposite towards each other. This renders ethnic and cultural diversity an important subject for research, not only in society at large, …

This paper investigates how top management can use management decentralization to influence motivation of employees within the Royal Netherlands Air Force. The different types of decentralization under investigation relate to the degree of concentration of power and the segregation of duties, instruments …

Because armed forces are financed by taxpayers money, it is necessary that they are operating in an effective and efficient way. To achieve this, good training is vital. New missions of the Dutch armed forces, for instance in Afghanistan, show that the operational preparedness for tasks is vital. As …

This article addresses the concept of Private Financing (PF). First, the way in which PF has been successfully applied in the United Kingdom is described. Second, the core of PF is discussed. Third, the method itself is elaborated upon together with the economic principles and hypotheses in an attempt …

Following the footsteps of the United States, the United Kingdom and many European countries, the Netherlands government is implementing Public Finance Constructions (PFC) as a means of financing and realizing public infrastructures. Being preceded by the Ministry of Traffic, Public Works and Water Management, …

This contribution discusses an empirical investigation into the management control system (MCS) of the Defense Telematics Organization (DTO), by means of a model originating from the profit sector (Van der Meer-Kooistra and Vosselman, 2000). The model describes how contractual relations can be brought …

By means of the economic analysis of strategic behavior it is attempted to elucidate the decision making on peace support operations of the armed forces. The analysis reveals that the choice between peace keeping based on the supposed agreement of the parties involved in the conflict - and peace enforcing …

In 2004 verscheen in dit tijdschrift een artikel over ontmoetingen tussen de Nederlandse en Turkse krijgsmacht tijdens de vredesoperaties in Kosovo en Afghanistan. Een van de belangrijke conclusies van dat artikel was dat de Turkse respondenten zich er op lieten voorstaan dat zij zulke goede contacten …