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This book is the first in a new series designed to facilitate an emergent dialogue around the issues of global change and cooperative potential. Written by an interdisciplinary group of leading scholars, it explores how organizational scholarship and thinking can lead to a greater understanding of global issues. Topics discussed include: global women leaders; corporations as agents of global change; international networking; the development of global environmental regimes and collaborative knowledge creation.
Constructing and Deconstructing Global Change Organizations
Constructing and Deconstructing Global Change Organizations
This chapter is part of a volume that aspires to bring the organizational sciences to bear on global change issues, advancing the organizational dimensions of global change. I take two broad approaches to this project. An initial section discusses several theoretical approaches to understanding global organizations. In this regard, I argue that the numbers and strength of organizations that deal with global issues should make a significant revision in the ways that we think about organizational relations. As discussed by Perrow (1986), theories of exchange, efficiency, and transaction costs dominate our thinking about organizations, and concepts of opportunism and free riders pervade mainstream thinking about public policy development. Organizations involved in global change ...
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