There are quite a few groups of actors in Russia who have their own unique interests and influence the country's political system. In general, all can be divided into three large clusters: state, commercial, public. However, it should noted that often these do not coincide with each other, which lead to conflict situations. such cases, one response options may use various forms protest, includi...

Synthetic biology may be an important source of progress as well as societal and political conflict. Against this backdrop, several technology assessment organizations have been seeking to contribute to timely societal and political opinion-making on synthetic biology. The Rathenau Instituut, based in the Netherlands, is one of these organizations. In 2011, the institute organized a 'Meeting of...

Executive Summary Important parts of the literature on strategies of interest organizations consider the political activities of interest organizations as serving to build and maintain exchange relationships between organizational representatives and constituents, policymakers and the news media. The incentive for organizational survival produces activities that links social and political domai...

We explore the impact of a growing presence of transnational organizations upon civil and political liberties. Building upon previous world-polity research we evaluate qualitative and quantitative evidence from Southeast Asia between 1978 and 2002. We extend world-polity research by statistically evaluating the hypothesized influence of transnational organizations upon civil and political life,...

Macro studies of entrepreneurship emphasize how environmental conditions—social, economic, and political—facilitate the creation of new organizations. Examples include how periods of political turbulence create favorable conditions for the emergence of new organizations (e.g., Delacroix & Carroll, 1983), how market concentration driven by the movement of generalist organizations favors the emer...

Organizational behaviors are commonly acknowledged as fundamentals of organizational life that strongly influence both formal and informal organizational processes, interpersonal relationships, work environments, and pay and promotion policies. The current study aims to investigate political behavior tendencies among employees of Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS). This cross-sectiona...

This is a report on a long-term research project about the evolution of system of political organizations. An agent-based computer simulation model is developed with the aim of exploring the inter-connection between tools and concepts from the field of political science with the emerging field of complex systems analysis and the simulation of ecological processes. In political science, we can d...

Many studies of learning have explored the impact of learning within organizations. This paper examines the impact of organization on learning. Organizational development interventions rarely pay attention to the emotional and political dynamics of organizational learning, even though the way people organize learning is intricately interwoven with emotion and politics. The aim of this paper is ...