This article evaluates to what extent Resource Dependence Theory (RDT) is able to explain organizational processes and structures. The evaluation criteria are the empirical corroboration of the theory ...

For decades, the global economy has promised convergence. The message has been straightforward: open your markets, liberalise ...

A large number of couples arrive at the venue of a state-sponsored wedding reception at the Kano state governor's office after taking part in a mass wedding at the central mosque in Kano State, ...

“Ecology and capitalism, are, by their nature, in opposition” (Amin, 2009, p. 21). This blog employs a Marxist dependency framework as a useful “entry point from which to explore the contemporary ...

World-systems theory emphasizes the relationships between large industrialized nations and Third World countries. Dependency theory, in particular, argues that the relationship promotes ...

An interesting critique of the Iranian intellectual left who had their dogmas - particularly those around anti-imperialist struggle - shattered by the events of the revolution. Also contains ...

DEPENDENCY theory emerged in the 1960s and ’70s as a Marxist critique of the ideology of “modernisation” which argued that “poor” countries could “develop” by following the same path as ”wealthy” ...