Anchoring International Organizations in Organizational Sociology

Organizational Learning in International Organizations

THEORIZING INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS An Organizational Theory of International Institutions

International institutions research has emphasized the organization but focused on sociological and real political responses while neglecting other approaches. This leaves a fundamental question unanswered: Does the organizational architecture of international institutions affect their ability to carry out their stated mission and the value they provide to actors or states? To that end, we put ...

Job Design Meets Organizational Sociology

The world of work has seen a vast transformation in the three decades since Hackman and Oldham published their foundational research on work redesign. At the broadest level, the US has nearly completed the transition from a manufacturing to a service economy foretold by Daniel Bell (1973). By 2010, perhaps as little as 10 per cent of the American workforce will be employed in agriculture and ma...

Software Agents in Enterprises, and Organizational Sociology

The emergence of agent technology and its increased use in business applications arises the question whether (and how) the existence of intelligent agents may affect the definition, the structure, the interaction patterns, and the dynamics of social systems of enterprises. This paper aims to work out some of the relationships between Organizational Sociology, and the use of organizational metap...

Community Ecology and the Sociology of Organizations

■ Abstract Research on organizations is increasingly informed by analysis of community context. Community can be conceptualized as sets of relations between organizational forms or as places where organizations are located in resource space or in geography. In both modes, organizations operate interdependently with social institutions and with other units of social structure. Because such relat...