Management Research in Iran

Abstract The effect of the evolutionary trend of various sciences on organization ‎theory has considered the importance of external legitimacy along with the ‎significance of internal efficiency. If management is concerned with ‎instrumental rationality, sociology inclines toward cultural rationality. In ‎Iran, this cultural background has been greatly influenced by structural and ‎behavioral interactions of domination by control of water. In this respect, ‎hydrocracy is considered as a very illuminative concept indicating the nature ‎of administrative interactions in Iran, which is manifested in the literature ‎both within the structure of traditional bureaucracy. It further in the structure ‎of fake democracy and aggravates a kind of linguistic domination.‎