Managing Democracy in Social Movement Organizations

Social movement organizations in the local food movement: linking social capital and movement support

Social movement actors seeking alternatives to the highly industrialized, global food system have been advocating for more sustainable, local food systems. Many of the local food movement strategies and initiatives to counter the conventional practices of the industrial food system have proven successful. Social movement researchers have documented the importance of the roles and services socia...

Democracy in Non-governmental Organizations in Israel

Although political participation can take many different forms within a democratic regime, there is no doubt that in one way or another the notion is central to the very idea of a democracy. It is difficult to find a piece of research reported in contemporary journals of political science that does not purport to describe some form of political participation: studies of the voter, the party act...

Using the Web Politically: Social Movement Activists and Organizations Online

This article focuses on the political use of the Internet by the Italian Global Justice Movement (GJM) considering both the organisations and the individuals involved in the movement. First, a definition of the concept ‘political use of the internet’ and its operationalization is provided. Second, light is shed on how the internet is used politically by participants in social movements taking i...

Feminist Social Movement Organizations: the Construction of an Ideal Type

Managing Rfid Projects in Organizations

The theme of the paper is to find the tasks faced by organizations in the accomplishment of RFID projects as well as how assessment of RFID value can be made. Explicitly, papers will cover three key segments, that is, Applications, Disputes and Assessment. The first segment ‘Applications’ elucidates the various applications that RFID can be positioned; the second segment ‘Disputes’ is apprehens...