" 'Independent,'nongovernmentaland and 'democratic' are the standard phrases the C.I.A. uses to describe organizations established all over the world to destroy the governments and the societies that the U.S. government wants to colonize and control," the paper wrote.
Previous research on organizational culture has mainly adopted a realistic approach when describing organizations' culture.
This typology includes six dimensions commonly used to describe organizations.
†See Table 2 for an outline of the terms used to describe organizations in each of the included articles.
The influence of the scope of our search strategy is reflected in the terminology used to describe organizations that we documented.
This theory describes organizations as comprised of macrosystems comprised of mesosytems (i.e., centres and programs), which, in turn, consist of interrelated microsystems or clinical units.
For the domain related to the terminology used to describe organizations, we used an outline of five common terms used to describe civil society organizations provided by Bhan et al. (2007) (community-based organizations, non-governmental organizations, civil society organizations, voluntary organizations and faith-based organizations).
ALE participated in the review and summary of case studies describing organizations operating at scale, the identification and refinement of the domains described in the paper, and the writing of the results section.
We then coded all included articles based on the country focus, type of literature, source of literature, academic discipline, disease sector, terminology used to describe organizations and topics discussed.
The coding framework included domains related to the country focus, type of literature, source of literature, academic discipline, disease, terminology used to describe organizations and topics discussed (see Additional file 1: Appendix 5 for the full coding framework).
