Meta-organizations

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Title:

Meta-organizations

Author:

Ahrne, Göran, 1944-

ISBN:

9781847209504

Personal Author:

Ahrne, Göran, 1944-

Publication Information:

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, c2008.

Physical Description:

xi, 187 p. ; 23 cm.

General Note:

Formerly CIP.

Contents:

1. Organized organizations -- 2. Many meta-organizations -- 3. Environment, members, and meta-organizations -- 4. Creating and sustaining meta-organizations -- 5. Similarity, dissimilarity, and identity formation -- 6. Conflicts and decision-making problems -- 7. The dynamics of meta-organizations -- 8. Meta-organizations and individual-based organizations -- 9. Organized globalization.

Abstract:

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject Term:

Organization.

Added Author:

Brunsson, Nils, 1946-

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Summary

A growing number of organizations are meta-organizations; rather than individuals they have other organizations as their members. This comprehensive book explains, in-depth, the unique way in which meta-organizations function, how they differ from organizations with individual membership, and how they are crucial agents in the process of globalization.

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.