Conceptualizing National Network of Research Institutes (Case Study: The Country’s Planning and Development Researches) (in Persian)

Networking can help invoke research potentials existing in organizations, while it resolves the current related problems. Considering the significance of this issue and the improper network pattern of business organizations, a need to design a coordinative communication network for the researches performed in the country’s executive agencies was strongly felt. Thus, this study investigated the feasibility and conceptualization of planning and development researches network. The statistical population included 33 governmental research institutes and agencies working in this field and a questionnaire was used as the instrument to collect the required data. To conceptualize a network, a comparative method between the features of network theory and research institutes’ network was applied. The results achieved by the feasibility study and other studies conducted in this research indicate that a new model should be developed in the structural and managerial domains in order to reorganize the country’s planning and development researches. Therefore, it was suggested that an inter-organizational cooperation network called “National Network of Planning and Development Research Institutes and Centers (UCINET)” be established. Following that, by applying the software for analyzing social networks, UCINET was conceptualized and then, the prerequisites and arrangements for the establishment of the suggested network were explained in the framework of particular instructions.