Örgütlerin temel ve en önemli sayılabilecek bileşeni olan liderlik, gerek zamanla değişen örgüt kuramları kapsamında gerekse liderlik alanyazınında rastlanan çoklu tanımlamalarla dinamik bir yapıda kabul edilebilir. Günümüze dek evrilen incelendiğinde, kavramında sürekli değişim dönüşümün varlığından söz Bu bağlamda kuramlarını doğrudan etkilemiş sosyolojik paradigma değişimlerinin, olgusunu ka...

Contemporary institutional theorizing in the field of organizations dates back thirty-odd years. This particularly describes what are called new or neo-institutionalisms. These terms evoke contrasts with earlier theories of the embeddedness of organizations in social and cultural contexts, now retrospectively called the ‘old institutionalism’ (Hirsch & Lounsbury, 1997; Stinchcombe, 1997). They ...

This paper introduces the Focused Stochastic Diffusion Network as a novel method of self-localisation for an autonomous wheelchair in a busy, complex environment. The space of possible positions is explored in parallel by a set of cells searching in a competitive co-operative manner for the most likely position of the wheelchair in its environment. Trials of the SENARIO autonomous wheelchair pr...

iStarML is an XML-based format for enabling i* interoperability. A relevant difference with any other interoperability proposal is that iStarML is founded under the assumption that there is not a common ontology guiding this communication proposal. The different i* variants and even particular applications proposing new language constructors forced to confront a theoretical approach for support...

In light of increased scholarly interest in the scientific study of non-Christian religions and societies, I review sociological research on Hinduism. Specifically, I focus on Hindu congregational forms, a phenomenon noted in social scientific literature. Drawing on existing theories from the sociology of religion, this article illuminates possible social sources of Hindu congregational forms. ...

In the literature on aging there have been almost simultaneous calls for researchers to make more explicit links between theory and research and for researchers to incorporate diversity in their work. Although gerontologists have begun to document diversity, theory is often absent from this research. In this article, the author examines sociological aging theories of inequality and argues that ...

Abstract Sociological general theories (or “grand theories”) have been criticized for being too abstract to be of any practical use empirical sociological work. This paper presents the outline a theory that claims better linked social research than previous theoretical attempts. The analyzes life as multitude interacting games. A game is an entity created by players with resources who engage in...

This article aims to realize an analysis on the current public administration through prism of new explanatory theories: The New Governance (NG) and Public Management (NPM), beyond classical bureaucratic theories, sociological etc. is based a qualitative local administrative system: trying identify whether elements e-government are present at this level, as well what their role necessity public...