Elites’ (De)legitimation Practices toward International Organizations

Iran’s Foreign Policy Approaches toward International Organizations

Iran’s foreign policy toward international organizations has always oscillated between divergence and convergence, depending on the status of the country in question and the statesmen's point of the view. This study aimed to examine the status of international organizations in Iran’s foreign policy. A divergent approach to international organizations was adopted during 1981-1988 and 2005-2013. ...

Toward an Identity Theory of International Organizations

Participatory Practices in Organizations

The literature on participatory practices in organizations has been less coherent and more limited to subspecialties than the literature on bureaucracy in organizations–despite a number of celebrated studies of participation in 20th century American sociology. Due to the practical nature of participatory reforms and the ambiguity of participation as a concept, attempts to review participatory k...

Toward Autonomous Virtual Organizations

The rapid advances in communication, information technology, and network technologies have had key role in emerging heterogeneous large-scale distributed systems. Besides, emergence of enterprise modeling and high integration of virtual organizations, proffesional virtual communities, and growth of number of practical cases on different forms of collaborative networks represent major trends and...

Communication and International Organizations

(This paper was originally presented at the 11th Conference of Non-governmental Organizations in Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (Genève, July 1969) under another title and in connection with the Agenda Item : The Second Development Decade — Opportunities and Co-operation for NGO Participation) The next ten years, the period of the United Nations Second D...