Notions could be warriors in a battle, totally ready to fight against other notions, without shedding the blood of their utterers. Naguib Mahfouz’s two allegory-based novels Khufu’s Wisdom (1939) and Sons Our Alley (1959) were banned when they first published. The reason was that symbolize some religious figures interpreted as abuse. Accordingly, Mahfouz became subject an issued fatwa death sen...

The historically prevailing view in the network literature has been that relationships within networks develop gradually and cumulatively over time, with power playing what might be termed a ‘concrete’ role in such a process, based primarily on identifiable resource dependencies. The concept of (Foucauldian) ‘system power’, beginning to emerge in the management and organisation literature, is n...

With the business environment become more complex and dynamic, organizations have been faced with more pressures of competition. Organizations are often compelled to form strategic alliances with other organizations to survive and prosper. The inter-organizational arrangement can become favorable seedbed for inter-organization conflict. The participants in the strategic alliance often spend a s...

This paper generalizes the model proposed by Misra, by considering switching between political parties. In the model proposed, the movements of members from political party B to political party C and vice versa, are considered but the net movement is considered by assuming that [Formula: see text] (a constant), which implies that the movement of members is either from party B to party C or from...