the purpose of this study is to examine the meaning transformation of despotism signifier from safavid era to the rising of iranian despotism discourse in qajar era. the method is archaeology and the study is focused on the relations of the meaning transformation with discourse practices. pre-modern texts were investigated for the significance of despotism. the results suggested that these sign...

Throughout the history, formation of constitutional state has been first experience modern in Iran. The change power relations and restriction authoritarian were among most important issues state. current study aims at investigating reasons for transition from Constitutional to an bureaucratic by adopting Laclau Mouffe’s framework political discourse analysis. Research methodology is descriptiv...

Against the background of a rapidly changing business environment, the article examines the organizational change management behavior of the owner-managers of small and medium-sized enterprises in Singapore. The analysis of survey data is aimed at ascertaining whether there are any differences between Chinese and English-educated small (Chinese) businessmen in terms of Change Management (CM), a...

The research aims to understand the impact of the internal factors on the formulation of a policy of selective opening of the Russian economy since the beginning of the transition. We study the politico-economic configuration in Russia in terms of (i) its "vertical" dimension (relations federal centre-regions) and (ii) the "horizontal" one (relations between state and firms). We show the fragme...

This paper presents a theoretical and practical framework for evaluating interventions aimed at promoting information utilization in organizational decision-making. The framework integrates three distinct yet complementary theoretical perspectives on information utilization in politico-administrative systems: (1) the literature on evaluation utilization, (2) current thinking on knowledge transf...

“Linking Research to Strengthen Upland Policies and Practice” This overall theme of the SSLWM conference 2006 suggests that policies and practices in upland development are generally deemed to be of better quality and higher impact if they are knowledge-driven or research-based. Nevertheless, the linkages between policy and research are not always smooth. This can partly be imputed to knowledge...

Poland has traditionally been considered one of the European states most supportive U.S. foreign policy, including security policy. Therefore, it seemed natural to establish a long-term partnership with United States in development missile defense capabilities on continent. This article examines U.S.-Polish relations politico-military sphere, specifically problem deployment system territory Rep...