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dc.contributor.authorDiane Angelis
dc.contributor.authorRaymond Franck
dc.contributor.authorJohn Dillard
dc.contributor.authorFrancois Melese
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-16T18:17:46Z-
dc.date.available2020-03-16T18:17:46Z-
dc.date.issued2009-09-30
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dc.identifier.urihttps://dair.nps.edu/handle/123456789/2439-
dc.descriptionProgram Management / NPS Faculty Research
dc.description.abstractThe theoretical foundations of our supporting inquiry come from Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) and Agency Theory. In particular, we are concerned with the complications and costs of dealing with partners both outside DoD (TCE) and within (Principal-Agent Problem). The number of oversight reviews has steadily increased, with increasingly higher-level involvement. Accordingly, the resources and management attention devoted to these reviews has also increased. The NRC study attempted to assess program reviews with respect to value added and various costs incurred. Our analysis of the survey results distinguishes between technical and programmatic reviews. Technical reviews are conducted by the program manager (as principal) to monitor technical progress of the system contractors (agents). Programmatic reviews provide management oversight of the program manager (as agent) by higher-level authorities in DoD or Congress (principals). Our results suggest that program managers found some real value in some of their programmatic reviews, despite the common perception that reviews create excessive and burdensome levels of oversight. In addition, we found that program mangers gave relatively less value to technical reviews, a result some might find counterintuitive.
dc.description.sponsorshipAcquisition Research Program
dc.languageEnglish (United States)
dc.publisherAcquisition Research Program
dc.relation.ispartofseriesTransaction Cost Economics (TCE)
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNPS-PM-09-142
dc.subjectAcquisition
dc.subjectProgram Management
dc.subjectTransaction Costs
dc.subjectPrincipal-Agent
dc.subjectTechnical Reviews
dc.subjectManagement Oversight
dc.titleTransaction Costs from a Program Manager Perspective
dc.typeTechnical Report
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