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Record Nr.

UNINA9910806962403321

Autore

Drori Gili S

Titolo

Globalization and Organization [[electronic resource] ] : World Society and Organizational Change

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, UK, 2006

ISBN

1-383-04301-9

1-280-87003-6

0-19-151584-1

1-4294-7100-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (339 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

MeyerJohn W

HwangHokyu

Disciplina

302.35

327

658.4/062

Soggetti

Globalization

Management

Organizational change

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Tables, Figures, and Appendices; Abbreviations; Introduction; PART I: GLOBALIZATION AND EXPANDED MODELS OF THE ORGANIZED ACTOR; 1. World Society and the Proliferation of Formal Organization; 2. Global Scientization: An Environment for Expanded Organization; 3. Planning Development: Globalization and the Shifting Locus of Planning; 4. Governed by Governance: The New Prism for Organizational Change; PART II: DIMENSIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL RATIONALIZATION; 5. The Worldwide Diffusion of Business Education, 1881-1999: Historical Trajectory and Mechanisms of Expansion

6. The Making and Expansion of International Management Standards: The Global Diffusion of ISO 9000 Quality Management Certificates7. Transparent Accounting as a World Societal Rule; 8. Dynamics of Corporate Responsibility; 9. The Spread of a 'Human Resources' Culture: Institutional Individualism and the Rise of Personal Development Training; 10. Turning the University into an



Organizational Actor; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W

Sommario/riassunto

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. - ;The process of globalization has meant the intensification of global interdependencies and the consolidation of the global a