Globalization and Organization: World Society and Organizational Change

All around the world, societies are experiencing an explosion of organizations and organizing: community clubs, religious groups, social movements, as well as schools, hospitals, businesses and government agencies, increasingly take the form of complex and formal organization. Why? Why is global society recast in this format and why so fiercely? 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. An application of institutional arguments to global issues, the book will be of interest to academics and researchers of Organization Studies, Sociology, Political Science, and Geography. Contributors to this volume - Gili S. Drori, Lecturer in International Relations and International Policy Studies, Standford University, Hokyu Hwang, Senior Social Science Researcher, Center for Social Innovation, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Yong Suk Jang, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Utah, Georg Kruecken, University of Bielefeld, Rose Xiaowei Luo, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Frank Meier Peter Mendel, Associate Social Scientist, RAND John W. Meyer, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Stanford University Hyeyoung Moon, Stanford University