Hyper-Organization

Auteur
Patricia Bromley is an Assistant Professor of Education at Stanford University. Her work focuses on the rise and globalization of a culture emphasizing rational, scientific thinking and expansive forms of rights. She draws mainly on two settings - education systems and organizations - to show how the institutionalization of these new cultural emphases transforms societies worldwide. She received a doctoral degree from Stanford University's School of Education also studies changes to civic education curricula in countries around the world. John W. Meyer is Professor of Sociology (and, by courtesy, Education), emeritus, at Stanford. He has contributed to organizational theory, comparative education, and the sociology of education, developing sociological institutional theory. Since the 1970s, he has studied the impact of global society on national states and societies In 2003 he completed a collaborative study of worldwide science and its national effects. A more recent collaborative project is on the impact of globalization on organizational structures. He now studies the world human rights regime, world curricula in mass and higher education, and the worldwide expansion of formal organization. He is a member of the National Academy of Education, has honorary doctorates from the Stockholm School of Economics and the Universities of Bielefeld and Lucerne, and received the American Sociological Association's section awards for lifetime contributions to the sociology of education, and to the study of globalization.

Texte du rabat

This book provides a general explanation of the emergence of formal organization as a core social structure in the contemporary world. It argues that organizations and their characteristics arise as much from cultural trends as from technical demands for efficiency or control.

Contenu

• 1: Organization and Hyper-Organization

• 2: Worldwide Expansion

• 3: Cultural Foundations: Science, Empowerment, Education

• 4: Cultural Catalysts: Law, Accounting, Professionalism

• 5: Individuals and their Organizations as Actors

• 6: Dialectics: The Inconsistencies and Arationalities of Organizational Actorhood

• 7: Conclusions