Building bridges over the River Kwai: Goal displacement and constriction in human institutions
BUILDING BRIDGES OVER THE RIVER KWAI:
GOAL DISPLACEMENT AND CONSTRICTION I N
HUMAN INSTITUTIONS’
ELI M. BOWER
University of California, Berkeley
Colonel Nicholson or Alec Guiness, depending on whether you wish to recall
the book or the movie, is a very proper British battalion commander imprisoned
in a Japanese camp deep in the Burmese jungle. The Japanese desperately need a
bridge over t
