abstract urban management forms (model) are a key and important factor on characteristics of urban governance. study of literature and other country’s experience suggest application of various form of urban management and government that each have own specification, legal and administrative characteristics. in iran, in spite of 100 years record in establishing municipalities, there is not any l...

The effects and outcomes of organizational citizenship behavior in recent years have increasingly received attention by researchers and scholars of organization and management field. One of them can be named as creation and enhancement of social capital. Yet, a comprehensive research has not been done about it in public organizations of Islamic Republic of Iran. The researcher tries to offer a...

Introduction Continued urban sprawl combined with slowed-down or failed attempts of local government reform has resulted in a growing divergence between functional and institutional urban spaces in most industrialised countries. Today, cities in the (weberian) sense of territorially integrated socioeconomic entities no longer exist. The urban phenomenon is better described by the notion of metr...

Over the past five years or so, in the streets of places like Seattle, Washington DC, Genoa, Goteborg and Montreal, an extraordinary and diverse protest movement has been critiquing and resisting the dominant political-economic order. That order is characterized by (1) the increasing control of large corporations over material life and the persistent extension of capitalist social relations; an...

Great expectations are being placed on firms to act with increasing social responsibility, which is adding a new dimension to the role of management and the vision of companies. Meanwhile, society is looking more closely at the impact of business on the public. Thus, the notion of the corporate citizenship is a significant transition in corporate consciousness as organizations look beyond their...

objective: in addition to issues such as environment, transportation, safely and urban planning, one of the most important factors  having increasingly influence on urban organizing factors is urban management. methods: there are so many issues in cities that for its solving, urban management factor is necessary. complexity and  extensiveness of urban issue and its  development and growth, led ...

In response to the facts that some Asian developing countries were experiencing the fastest rate of industrialisation and urbanisation, several international initiatives called for a better and ‘sustainable’ urban management. Development of management tools including strategic environmental assessment (SEA), life cycle assessment (LCA), cost benefit analysis (CBA), and environmental managemen...