Globalization and Organization: World Society and Organizational Change

by Gili S. Drori, John W. Meyer, Hokyu Hwang

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199284542
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	07/20/2006
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	340
Product dimensions:	9.18(w) x 6.32(h) x 0.73(d)

About the Author

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 role of policy regimes in worldwide governance. She is senior author of Science in the Modern World Polity: Institutionalization and Globalization (with John W. Meyer, F. Ramirez, and E. Schofer, Stanford University Press, 2003). John W. Meyer is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Stanford University. He is the author of many books and papers on comparative sociology, organizations, world society, and the sociology of education, including National Developments in the World System (with M. Hannan, Chicago, 1979), Institutional Environments and Organizations (with W. R. Scott, Sage, 1994), and Science in the Modern World Polity (with Gili S. Drori, F. Ramirez, and E. Schofer, Stanford University Press, 2003).

For several decades Professor Meyer has been a leading figure in sociological institutionalism, a line of thought that has been central in the development of modern organizations theory, and in sociological studies of the global system. Hokyu Hwang is a Senior Social Science Researcher at the Center for Social Innovation, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. He is currently involved in the Stanford Project on Emerging Nonprofits, which looks at rationalization of the San Francisco Bay Area nonprofit sector. His research intersts include organizations, comparative sociology, economic, and political sociology.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Globalization and Organization, Gili S. Drori, John W. Meyer, and Hokyu HwangPart I: Globalization and Expanded Models of the Organized Actor1. World Society and the Organizational Actor, John W. Meyer, Gili S. Drori, and Hokyu Hwang2. Scientization: Making a World Safe for Organization, Gili S. Drori and John W. Meyer3. Globalization and the Shifting Locus of Planning, Hokyu Hwang4. Elaborated Models of Governance in State and Society, Gili DroriPart II: Dimensions of Organizational Rationalization5. The Worldwide Diffusion of Professional Management Education, Hyeyoung Moon6. The Making and Expansion of International Standards of Corporate Management, Peter Mendel7. Transparent Accounting as a World Societal Rule, Yong Suk Jang8. The Development and Spread of a 'Human Resources' Culture, Rose Xiaowei Luo9. Turning the University into an Organizational Actor, Georg Kruecken and Frank MeierSummary and Conclusion: Organizations in a World Society, Gili S. Drori, John W. Meyer, and Hokyu Hwang