Bingöl Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi

Öz

This
study approaches the organizational behavior patterns of terrorist
organizations. The bottom-up and top-down organization of terrorist
organizations have a big influence on many process, especially on the
decision-making process. As a natural result of this process, regarding
terror organizations simply as “Threats against the State” prevented increasing
the number of studies that analyze such organizations’ functioning and
behavioral patterns. Besides threatening states, terror organizations pose
threats against “social wealth”. The notion of terror organization has been
frequently used in Turkey and across the world in the studies about
international relations and political sciences; despite this, it is observed
that there is an insufficiency in terms of studies specifically analyzing
terror organizations’ behaviors in the related academic literature of
International Relations and Political Science. This study is designed in order
to contribute to the interdisciplinary perspective to terror organizations’
behavioral models in the context of terror organizations. From a theoretical
point of view, the study aims to contribute to terrorism studies from business
administration based on the model of organizational behavior. The sample of
Al-Qaeda may be analyzed more easily through organizational models.