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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.
The process of globalization has meant the intensification of
global interdependencies and the consolidation of the global as a
social horizon, and this has provided fertile breeding grounds for
new organizations and the elaboration of extinct ones, This book
describes and analyzes these organizations, and the modern
managerialism that has accompanied them, looking at such issues as
management education, corporate governance, accounting, and human
resource management.
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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