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بررسی نارسایی‌های دولت آمریکا در مواجهه با تروریسم صنعتی

نوع مقاله : مقاله علمی- پژوهشی مستقل

نویسندگان
1 دانشیار گروه مهندسی صنایع، دانشکده مهندسی صنایع آموزشی، واحد پرند، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، پرند، ایران.
2 دانش‌آموخته دکتری تخصصی مهندسی صنایع، واحد پرند، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، پرند، ایران.
چکیده
مطالعه شواهد و یافته های به دست آمده از تحقیقات صورت‌گرفته نشان می دهد یکی از وجوه تروریسم با حمله به زیرساخت‌های صنعتی، تأثیرات منفی و مخربی بر رونق اقتصادی یک کشور دارد. بنابراین هدف اصلی تحقیق حاضر بررسی میزان توفیق دولت آمریکا در کنترل اثرات تروریسم بر فعالیت های صنعتی در مطالعه موردی شرکت‌ راه‌آهن آمریکایی است و لذا مطالعه حاضر تروریسم را از منظر تأثیر بر فعالیت های صنعتی مورد بررسی قرار داده و می کوشد به صورت نظام مند به پاسخ این پرسش بپردازد که آیا دولت آمریکا در موجهه با تروریسم صنعتی موفق بوده است؟ فرضیه تحقیق حاضر به صورت شهودی بیان می دارد که دولت آمریکا در مواجهه با تروریسم صنعتی دارای نارسایی است و از این رو برای آزمون فرض بر شرکت «امترک» (شرکت‌ راه‌آهن آمریکایی) تمرکز شده است. این پژوهش با استفاده از روش تحلیل محتوا ضمن بررسی نظام مند و تعمیم پذیر تروریسم صنعتی در آمریکا به تبیین نارسایی های دولت در مواجهه با تبعات آن پرداخته است. برخی نتایج این مطالعه نشان می دهد ارزش اقتصادی صنایع مادر و اقدامات کنترلی دولت آمریکا برای حفاظت از این صنایع ارتباط مستقیمی با تروریسم صنعتی دارد و در نهایت پیامدهای تروریسم صنعتی برای برخی صنایع مادر آمریکایی نظیر راه آهن به بی ثباتی سیاسی، کاهش سرمایه و اعتماد عمومی منجر گردیده است.
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عنوان مقاله English

Investigative the lack of the US Government in Dealing with Industrial Terrorism

نویسندگان English

Davood Jafari 1
Mehran Khalaj 1
Pejman Salehi 2
1 Associate Prof. at Industrial Engineering Dep., Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Parand Branch, Islamic Azad University, Parand, Iran.
2 Ph.D. of Industrial Engineering, Parand Branch, Islamic Azad University, Parand, Iran.
چکیده English

Studying the evidence and findings obtained from the research shows that one of the aspects of terrorism, attacking industrial infrastructure, has negative and destructive effects on the economic prosperity of a country. Therefore, the main goal of the current research is to investigate the success rate of the American government in controlling the effects of terrorism on industrial activities in the case study of the American Railway Company; therefore, the current study examines terrorism from the perspective of its effect on industrial activities and tries to do so systematically. To answer this question, has the US government been successful in dealing with industrial terrorism? The hypothesis of the present research intuitively states that the American government is incompetent in dealing with industrial terrorism, and therefore, to test the hypothesis, it is focused on Amtrak (American Railway Company). This research, using the method of content analysis, has explained the inadequacies of the government in dealing with its consequences for systematically and generalizing industrial terrorism in America. Some results of this study show that the economic value of parent industries and the control measures of the American government to protect these industries are directly related to industrial terrorism, and finally, the consequences of industrial terrorism for some parent American industries such as railways lead to political instability, capital reduction and Public trust has resulted.

کلیدواژه‌ها English

American government
industrial terrorism
mother industries
Governance failure
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