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...

Political interviews are important political actions that conducted to explain the trends, actions, views and stances. They usually embedded with covert overt ideologies aim affect others' positions, stances shape public opinions. The researcher tries detect power relations manifested during a prewar on Iraq interview BBC British Prime Minister Tony Blair. uses Wodak's (2015) critical discourse...

Blogs are probably most associated with the high profile postings of a few highly popular bloggers who debate or comment on major news stories, but for each ‘A-lister’ there are numerous faceless bloggers who write about their own daily lives and/or interests. Hence it is interesting to investigate the extent to which an event with extensive media coverage, such as the London attacks, is reflec...

Abstract The paper examines doctrinal and political reasons to explain why the Ancient Greek religion did not feature a distinct class of professional priests as suppliers religious goods. Doctrinal relate worshiping multitude powerful anthropomorphic gods with flawed characters; absence founder scripture; lack doctrine code moral behaviour piety manifested mass participation in rituals. These ...

BACKGROUND The hydatid disease, or echinococcosis, is endemic in Mediterranean countries, as well as in Australia, Asia, Africa, South America, and Canada. Among its complications is intraperitoneal rupture, a rare form of presentation, with highly variable symptoms. The treatment of choice is surgery plus adjuvant medical treatment in most patients. OBJECTIVE A case is presented of a patient...

symptomatic retinal astrocytic hamartomaswouldhavebeentreatmentby laser, which has the undesirable adverse effect of thermal destruction of theneurosensoryretina.Delayoftreatment,however,couldhaveresultedin vitreous hemorrhage, a possible late complicationofgrowingretinalhamartomas. Our case demonstrates the successfuloutcomeofa symptomatic astrocytic hamartoma after 1 session of PDT that resul...