Globalization and Organization World Society and Organizational Change [Paperback]

This book explores various dimensions of the trends of expansion, formalization, and standardization of organizing worldwide by exploring such organizational legacies as accounting, business management, corporate social responsibility, and performance benchmarks. Featuring contributions from prominent academics, the book argues that these processes can be attributed to globalization and to its specific tendencies of universalism, rationalization, and rise of the modern notion of the strongly bounded and purposive social actor.

Introduction: Globalization and Organization,Gili S. Drori, John W. Meyer, and Hokyu Hwang
Part I: Globalization and Expanded Models of the Organized Actor
1. World Society and the Organizational Actor,John W. Meyer, Gili S. Drori, and Hokyu Hwang
2. Scientization: Making a World Safe for Organization,Gili S. Drori and John W. Meyer
3. Globalization and the Shifting Locus of Planning,Hokyu Hwang
4. Elaborated Models of Governance in State and Society,Gili Drori
Part II: Dimensions of Organizational Rationalization
5. The Worldwide Diffusion of Professional Management Education,Hyeyoung Moon
6. The Making and Expansion of International Standards of Corporate Management,Peter Mendel
7. Transparent Accounting as a World Societal Rule,Yong Suk Jang
8. The Development and Spread of a 'Human Resources' Culture,Rose Xiaowei Luo
9. Turning the University into an Organizational Actor,Georg Kruecken and Frank Meier
Summary and Conclusion: Organizations in a World Society,Gili S. Drori, John W. Meyer, and Hokyu Hwang

Gili S. Drori is a lecturer in Stanford University's programs on International Relations and International Policy Studies. She is the author of several papers and chapters on science and development, comparative science education, political discourse, and the rl#+