AN ANALOGY BETWEEN CANCER CELLS AND TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS

Year 2013, Volume: 9 Issue: 19, 347 - 364, 01.05.2013

Sefer Yılmaz

https://doi.org/10.11122/ijmeb.2013.9.19.415

Abstract

Contemporary organizational approaches do not provide the adequate tools to comprehend and explain the characteristics of terrorist organizations. Moving this point forward, it has been realized that terrorist organizations’ characteristics are very similar to the nature of a particular biological phenomenon, namely cancer. This paper attempts to develop an understanding on how terrorist organizations emerge and behave by investigating how the cancer cells emerge, spread, and affect the surrounding cells in the human body,. This analogy not only delves into the nature of terrorist organizations, it also provides some certain tools of these organizations with cancer cells relying on the similarity to struggle with these organizations’ destructiveness more effectively

Keywords

Management, Organization Theory, Terrorist Organizations, Cancer Cells

KANSER HÜCRELERİ VE TERÖR ÖRGÜTLERİ ARASINDA BİR ANALOJİ

Abstract

Çağdaş örgüt yaklaşımları, terör örgütlerinin karakterlerini anlamada ve açıklamada yeterli araçları sağlamamaktadır. Bu noktadan hareketle fark edilmiştir ki, terör örgütlerinin karakteristikleri kanser adı altında özel bir biyolojik olgunun doğasına çok benzemektedir. Bu çalışma, insan bedeninde kanser hücrelerinin ortaya çıkışı, yayılışı ve çevresindeki hücreleri nasıl etkilediğini inceleyerek terör örgütlerinin nasıl ortaya çıktıkları ve davranış gösterdikleri üzerine bir anlayış geliştirme girişiminde bulunur. Bu analoji, sadece terörist örgütlerin doğasını incelemekle kalmayacak, bu örgütlerle kanser hücreleri arasındaki benzerliklerden yola çıkarak, terör örgütlerinin yıkıcılığıyla daha etkili bir şekilde mücadele edebilmek için belirli bazı araçları da sağlamış olacak.

Keywords

Yönetim, Örgüt Teorisi, Terör Örgütleri, Kanser Hücreleri.

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