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This is common for organizations to don't move in their specified mission statement direction, because of pressures for saving themselves in reaction to environment changes. This problem can be addressed as conflict between survival and identity. In this thesis we approach this problem by synthesizing "Viable System Model" and "System Dynamics". Basic of this model shaped on viable system model structure and system dynamics modeling. In literature there is only two such models. But they are not detailed enough for providing mathematical analysis. In this research, law of requisite variety (one of the key principles in cybernetics) has been quantified. In this synthetic model, appropriate... 

Truth and Method is one of the two or three most important works of this century on the philosophy of humanistic studies. The book is powerful, exciting, but undeniably difficult. Published when Gadamer was sixty, it gathers the ripe fruit of a lifetime's reading, teaching, and thinking. Because it is immersed in German philosophy and scholarship, the book is even more challenging for an American reader. An emerging body of commentary in English as well as the many shorter essays Gadamer has, happily, lived to write and which are increasingly available in translation provide additional means of access to his thought. Truth and Method, however, remains his magnum opus, the comprehensive and... 

Shia theology has gone through different transformations throughout history. In the contemprorary age diverse studies have been carried out in order to discribe it’s preceding changes and future transformations. This tesis tends to show at first that “MacIntyre’s method of historical-philosophical study” is an overally justified model for such studeis, in comparison with the two other models of “Kuhn’s model of scientific revolutions” & “Lakatos’s research programs.” Afterwards, this model has been used for the study of shia theology and a brief narration of the rationality traditions of shia theology through the Iranian tradition has been given. The focus of this section has been on the...