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Authors and leaders have written and spoken about interdependence throughout history, including Karl Marx, Mahatma Gandhi, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Stephen Covey.
Based on empirical research at a cable company and its suppliers (a total of 239 filled-in questionnaires were received back, 46 from the cable company and on average 48 per supplier.), a HPP Framework was developed consisting of nine HPP characteristic: Control, Trust, Commitment, Coordination, Interdependence, Communication, Conflict, Valuing and Diversity.
Civic, Social and Political Education is a compulsory subject in all high-schools in the Republic of Ireland; the subject focuses mainly on Citizenship along with Human Rights, Stewardship and Interdependence.
Interdependence theory was first introduced by Harold Kelley and John Thibaut in 1959 in their book, The Social Psychology of Groups.
Keohane and Nye describe that previously, the international relations were based on a simple interdependence scheme based on national security : high politics, and that nowadays the international relations are ruled by a complex interdependence based on domestic issues : low politics.
Their study has led to comparison with those of Saint Martin de Vicq (Nohant-Vicq, Indre, central France) from the second half of the twelfth century, in which has been found not so much a certain interdependence but the use of common, possibly Carolingian European models.
Johnson, Johnson, and Holubek identify positive interdependence as the first essential element for successful cooperative learning.
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Kurt Koffka, one of the founders of the gestalt school of psychology, proposed that interdependence was essential for a group to become a dynamic whole and recognized that interdependence will vary from one individual to another within the group.
Saikia later compiled a book on the interdependence and commonness of the Seven Sister States, and named it the Land of Seven Sisters.
According to Valerie Barr of Hofstra University, it also "turns the usual notion of overreliance on technology on its head" by suggesting an interdependence with machines when it is revealed that a man-made computer has been keeping the townspeople alive.