Globalization and Organization World Society and Organizational Change

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

• ISBN13: 9780199284542
• ISBN10: 0199284547
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-07-20
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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

Tables, Figures, and Appendices	xiii
Abbreviations	xv
Introduction	1	(24)
Gili S. Drori, John W. Meyer, and Hokyu Hwang
PART I: GLOBALIZATION AND EXPANDED MODELS OF THE ORGANIZED ACTOR
1. World Society and the Proliferation of Formal Organization	25	(25)
John W. Meyer, Gili S. Drori, and Hokyu Hwang
2. Global Scientization: An Environment for Expanded Organization	50	(19)
Gili S. Drori and John W. Meyer
3. Planning Development: Globalization and the Shifting Locus of Planning	69	(22)
Hokyu Hwang
4. Governed by Governance: The New Prism for Organizational Change	91	(30)
Gili S. Drori
PART II: DIMENSIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL RATIONALIZATION
5. The Worldwide Diffusion of Business Education, 1881-1999: Historical Trajectory and Mechanisms of Expansion	121	(16)
Hyeyoung Moon and Christine Min Wotipka
6. The Making and Expansion of International Management Standards: The Global Diffusion of ISO 9000 Quality Management Certificates	137	(30)
Peter Mendel
7. Transparent Accounting as a World Societal Rule	167	(29)
Yong Suk Jang
8. Dynamics of Corporate Responsibility	196	(29)
Suzanne Shanahan and Sanjeev Khagram
9. The Spread of a 'Human Resources' Culture: Institutional Individualism and the Rise of Personal Development Training	225	(16)
Xiaowei Luo
10. Turning the University into an Organizational Actor	241	(17)
Georg Krücken and Frank Meier
Conclusion	258	(17)
John W. Meyer, Gili S. Drori, and Hokyu Hwang
Bibliography	275	(38)
Index	313