Does the Program Manager Matter? New Public Management and Defense Acquisition
利用1997-2010年美国国防部重大采办项目数据，检验项目经理的培训与经验等属性对项目结果的影响，发现支持不足，转而提出制度主义理论更能解释采办结果。
Past efforts to reform defense acquisition have been based in New Public Management assumptions that certain attributes of program managers (PMs), such as their training and experience levels, are important for improving outcomes. This article documents an effort to examine the relationship between such PM attributes and program outcomes using data drawn from annual Department of Defense Selected Acquisition Reports for major defense acquisition programs between 1997 and 2010. The findings provide little support for these assumptions. They point instead to the potential for institutionalist theories to explain acquisition outcomes, which can enable more nuanced reform policies in the future.