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How is the public mission of universities to change in the face of
today's global challenges? How is the 21st Century university to
balance its long-standing traditions and its commitment to
teaching, research and commercialization with rapidly changing
social needs and conditions worldwide? And how does the newly
defined public role of the university reflect on changes to
non-profit organizations in general? Amalya Oliver-Lumerman and
Gili S. Drori offer a new model of academic commitment and
leadership in response to questions about the new public role of
the university. Combining historical and sociological analysis with
examples and proposals for academic commitment and leadership, the
book reconsiders the social impact of universities and, by
extension, public organizations. It offers detailed examples for
Academic Leadership and Responsibility (ACL) programs and related
projects, contributing to higher education policy-making and
discussions around university governance. In exploring the changing
public mission of universities, the book also highlights models of
social responsibility and leadership that are appropriate for
universities, and discusses the translation of CSR to a non-profit
public organization. This will be an invigorating read for higher
education and organization studies scholars, as it engages with
current debates about the future of university models and public
sector organisational forms.
How is the public mission of universities to change in the face of
today's global challenges? How is the 21st Century university to
balance its long-standing traditions and its commitment to
teaching, research and commercialization with rapidly changing
social needs and conditions worldwide? And how does the newly
defined public role of the university reflect on changes to
non-profit organizations in general? Amalya Oliver-Lumerman and
Gili S. Drori offer a new model of academic commitment and
leadership in response to questions about the new public role of
the university. Combining historical and sociological analysis with
examples and proposals for academic commitment and leadership, the
book reconsiders the social impact of universities and, by
extension, public organizations. It offers detailed examples for
Academic Leadership and Responsibility (ACL) programs and related
projects, contributing to higher education policy-making and
discussions around university governance. In exploring the changing
public mission of universities, the book also highlights models of
social responsibility and leadership that are appropriate for
universities, and discusses the translation of CSR to a non-profit
public organization. This will be an invigorating read for higher
education and organization studies scholars, as it engages with
current debates about the future of university models and public
sector organisational forms.
Global Themes and Local Variations in Organization and Management:
Perspectives on Glocalization offers a broad exposition of the
relations between the global and the local with regard to
organizational and managerial ideas, practices, and forms. This
edited volume forges ahead to capture the complexity of modern
management and organization that results from the processes of
glocalization. Universality is among the core underlying principles
of the management of organizations, as well as of organization and
management science itself. Yet, reality reveals enormous variation
across social and cultural contexts. For instance, multinational
corporations must adjust their management practices to adhere to
national regulation and local standards; manufacturers and service
providers routinely tailor their products to suit the local
preferences of consumers; and non-profit organizations amend their
advocacy agenda to appeal to local sentiments. The work assembled
here goes beyond merely describing such patterns of variation and
adaptation in organization and management; research and commentary
engage directly with the tensions between homogeneity and
heterogeneity, convergence and divergence, global and local. With
contributions from leading scholars in the field of comparative
organization studies, this collection offers a substantive
contribution to the investigation of organization and management,
as well as providing a valuable resource for students of
organization studies, international business, and sociology.
National governments are increasingly sharing the stage with many
other forms of empowered social actors and authoritative players.
Worldwide, alongside governmental bureaucracies, we witness the
proliferation of non-for-profit and voluntary associations,
business organizations and corporations, civic action committees
and political parties, as well as celebrities and cultural icons.
Importantly, whether they are individual- and collective social
actors, these various actors are bestowed with the legitimate
authority to speak their mind, act on their agenda, and influence
the course of social progress. How might we conceptualize the role
of such empowered social actors? This compilation of research and
commentary gathers a range of institutional perspectives
investigating what the devolution of state power and the so-called
democratization of social action means for the nature of authority
and how the multiplicity and variety of social actors impacts
societies worldwide, extending from focus on agents to actors to
actorhood.
This book presents empirical studies of the rise, expansion, and
influence of scientific discourse and organization throughout the
world, over the past century. Using quantitative cross-national
data, it shows the impact of this scientized world polity on
national societies. It examines how this world scientific system
and national reflections of it have influenced a wide variety of
institutional spheres--the economy, political systems, human
rights, environmentalism, and organizational reforms.
The authors argue that the triumph of science across social domains
and around the world is due to its institutionalized cultural
authority rather than to its instrumental utility for societies or
for their dominant elites. Thus, following the Stanford approach to
institutional theory in sociology, the book emphasizes the symbolic
or religious role science plays in the modern world.
Global Themes and Local Variations in Organization and Management:
Perspectives on Glocalization offers a broad exposition of the
relations between the global and the local with regard to
organizational and managerial ideas, practices, and forms. This
edited volume forges ahead to capture the complexity of modern
management and organization that results from the processes of
glocalization. Universality is among the core underlying principles
of the management of organizations, as well as of organization and
management science itself. Yet, reality reveals enormous variation
across social and cultural contexts. For instance, multinational
corporations must adjust their management practices to adhere to
national regulation and local standards; manufacturers and service
providers routinely tailor their products to suit the local
preferences of consumers; and non-profit organizations amend their
advocacy agenda to appeal to local sentiments. The work assembled
here goes beyond merely describing such patterns of variation and
adaptation in organization and management; research and commentary
engage directly with the tensions between homogeneity and
heterogeneity, convergence and divergence, global and local. With
contributions from leading scholars in the field of comparative
organization studies, this collection offers a substantive
contribution to the investigation of organization and management,
as well as providing a valuable resource for students of
organization studies, international business, and sociology.
This book presents empirical studies of the rise, expansion, and
influence of scientific discourse and organization throughout the
world, over the past century. Using quantitative cross-national
data, it shows the impact of this scientized world polity on
national societies. It examines how this world scientific system
and national reflections of it have influenced a wide variety of
institutional spheres--the economy, political systems, human
rights, environmentalism, and organizational reforms.
The authors argue that the triumph of science across social domains
and around the world is due to its institutionalized cultural
authority rather than to its instrumental utility for societies or
for their dominant elites. Thus, following the Stanford approach to
institutional theory in sociology, the book emphasizes the symbolic
or religious role science plays in the modern world.
John W. Meyer's work broke new grounds in institutional thought in
sociology and made him a central thinker for the emerging
interdisciplinary field of neo-institutionalism, while at the same
time establishing institutional thought's comparative variant,
world society theory. His scholarship plays a prominent role in
contemporary social theory, and has shaped research areas such as
international relations and globalization, organization theory, and
management studies.
One of the results of Meyer's wide-ranging and interdisciplinary
influence is that his work has appeared in a diverse range of
outlets. This book brings together some of John W. Meyer's
widely-scattered work, reviewing four decades of scholarship, and
adding several original pieces from Meyer's current work. It
gathers substantive commentary on social processes, from
stratification to globalization to socialization, as well as on key
social institutions, from science to religion to law to education.
In its expansive review, this book is both about neo-institutional
thought in general and world society theory in particular.
This book is both by John W. Meyer and about John W. Meyer: to the
compilation of Meyer's canonized and current work, Georg Krucken
and Gili S. Drori add an essay on the theoretical and empirical
contribution of Meyer's institutional theory, placing it within the
broader context of contemporary social theory, globalization
research, and organizational studies in both in the United States
and Europe."
John W. Meyer's work broke new grounds in institutional thought in
sociology and made him a central thinker for the emerging
interdisciplinary field of neoinstitutionalism, while at the same
time establishing institutional thought's comparative variant,
world society theory. His scholarship plays a prominent role in
contemporary social theory, and has shaped research areas such as
international relations and globalization, organization theory, and
management studies.
One of the results of Meyer's wide-ranging and interdisciplinary
influence is that his work has appeared in a diverse range of
outlets. This book brings together some of John W. Meyer's
widely-scattered work, reviewing four decades of scholarship, and
adding several original pieces from Meyer's current work. It
gathers substantive commentary on social processes, from
stratification to globalization to socialization, as well as on key
social institutions, from science to religion to law to education.
In its expansive review, this book is both about neoinstitutional
thought in general and world society theory in particular.
This book is both by John W. Meyer and about John W. Meyer: to the
compilation of Meyer's canonized and current work, Georg Krucken
and Gili S. Drori add an essay on the theoretical and empirical
contribution of Meyer's institutional theory, placing it within the
broader context of contemporary social theory, globalization
research, and organizational studies in both in the United States
and Europe.
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.
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