Organizational life cycle: A study of political parties

The phenomenon of governance in the 21st century information society, leads to a re-thinking of the management philosophy in organizations. The management function has an important function in making decisions in organizations. Management has been at the core of organizations since the industrial revolution. Organizations have not any opportunity to act independently of the external environmental conditions in socio-economic domain that have changed with the development of technology and globalization. Organizations can ensure the sustainability of their assets only when they are compatible with external environmental conditions, stakeholders and their activities. In order to ensure the sustainability of the organization, all stakeholders of the organization should be included in the idea of participating in the management within the principles of governance. Modern society is one of the political parties and organizational structures of the political field which representing the society with the formation of nation-states. Political parties are the representatives of the society in the political field. Based on these views, governance and political party discourses are examined from an organizational point of view in this thesis. In the first chapter, the development of organizational and management elements, the concept and principles of governance are discussed. In the second chapter, the concept of political party, its features and discourse are discussed in the context of institutional communication. The third chapter consists of the research part of the thesis. In this research, the categories of organizational discourses (election manifesto) of the political party and the sections related to good governance (governance) were investigated. Consequently, economics, law, democracy and stakeholder-based discourses are reached.