... realism that sees the organizations (non state actors-called usually by the economists) without relevant importance. In their opinion the states are the real engine who runs the world economy. To contradict this, some external information has been found that while are less than 200 governments in the global system, there are: * approximately 60000 major transnational companies (TNC's) such as Shell, IBM Bank, Coca Cola, Ford , Microsoft, or Nestle, with these parent companies having more than 500.000 foreign affiliates; * 10000 single-country non-governmental organisations such as Freedom House, Medicines sans Frontieres; * 250 intergovernmental organisations such as UN, NATO, The European Union. Organisations are important and from Morgan (1990 cited Mullins 1993) point of view, organisations are defined in eight different ways: as machines that need to operate efficient, organisms that need to adapt as any living system, brains with their capacity to innovate, cultures as set of values, political systems ...

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