Meta-organizations
By: Go ran Ahrne and Nils Brunsson
Contributors: Brunsson, Nils, 1946-
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cheltenham
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9781848442658; 9781847209504
Subjects: Organisatietheorie; Organization; Finance; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS; Internationale organisaties
Description: "Goran Ahrne and Nils Brunsson combine the fields of organization theory and international relations in a new way. They portray a theory based on insights from organization studies that is also used to explain and understand international organizations. This theory creates new possibilities to analyse meta-organizations such as the EU and the UN and compare them to other meta-organizations such as national trade associations, sport federations and international non-governmental organizations. The authors point out similarities between all these organizations that have never been discovered before, including the conditions for membership, identity formation and decision-making." "The book opens a whole new area for organizational research. It will be essential reading for researchers and postgraduate students interested in organization theory, globalization, politics and organizations, or international organizations."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Cover; title: Contents; title: Preface; title: Abbreviations and acronyms; title: Chapter 1: Organized organizations; title: The need for a theory; title: An overview of the book; title: Chapter 2: Many meta-organizations; title: Organizations that do not know who they are; title: Why "meta-organizations"?; title: Meta-organizations over time; title: How many are there?; title: Case studies; title: Other meta-organizations; title: Chapter 3: Environment, members, and meta-organizations; title: Organization as order; title: Decided and non-decided orders; title: Organizational environments; title: Individuals or organizations as members; title: Chapter 4: Creating and sustaining meta-organizations; title: Eliminating environment; title: Incentives for creating meta-organizations; title: Recruiting members; title: Dependence on members; title: From environment to member; title: Chapter 5: Similarity, dissimilarity, and identity formation; title: The first and last names of organizations; title: Shifting relations between similarity anddissimilarity; title: Chapter 6: Conflicts and decision-making problems; title: Sources of conflict; title: Difficulties solving conflicts; title: Handling conflicts in meta-organizations; title: Chapter 7: The dynamics of meta-organizations; title: Survival or dissolution; title: Transitional forms; title: Chapter 8: Meta-organizations and individual-based organizations; title: Underestimated organizations?; title: Chapter 9: Organized globalization; title: Globalization through meta-organizations; title: Globalization of meta-organizations; title: Governance and networks; title: A striped order?; title: The study of meta-organizations; title: References; title: Index.