Salvucci Case Study

The impact on the environment from such a large transportation project prompted some concern among various environmental and social agencies. The environmental concerns extended behind noise and pollution to factors such as economic impacts, energy, and historic resources. Salvucci had to meet with hundreds of governmental and civilian agencies and groups to discuss methods by which to mitigate environmental impacts. As was the case with the previous two actors, Salvucci appeased the concerns of each group. He implemented bypasses and access roads, which reduced noisy traffic flow through neighborhoods. He committed to limiting downtown parking, while also increasing the amount of covered parking. Additionally, he devised a plan to

Unlike Salvucci, who focused efforts on the actors to transform associations, Rear Admiral William Moffett focused on transforming the system to accept his artifact. In 1921, Moffett was chosen as the first chief of the navy’s Bureau of Aeronautics. Moffett believed that carriers should no longer be adjuncts to battleships, but should replace them. This would require a fundamental shift in navy thinking and doctrine. The basic entities in this network are: Moffett (heterogeneous engineer), the carrier (artifact), non-aviators, naval aviators, the promotion system, and naval doctrine. Rather than changing his artifact to meet the interests of the other actors, he used the promotion system to alter the associations of the artifact to the aviators, non-aviators, and the doctrine. We will examine those three relationships for this

To accomplish this, he had to introduce naval aviators into the promotion system, but this was a significant challenge. It was assumed that because of the inherent danger in flying, wartime would claim many more aviator lives than non-aviators. This required that the navy possess a large number of aviators in peacetime, but this threated the non-aviators’ influential role in the system. There would be too many aviators competing for promotion against the non-aviators. His solution was for the aviators to join the Navy Reserve during peacetime. This allowed the system to accept more promotions of aviators while limiting the impact on the currently accepted role of non-aviators. Additionally, he instituted a program for Navy Captains (who were too old for basic flight school) that allowed them to earn aviation wings through a limited aviation observation program. These non-aviators-turned-aviators provided additional support for Moffett’s integration of the carrier. Over time, these two steps fostered a positive association between non-aviators and the