Books

Global Themes and Local Variations in Organization and Management:

Perspectives on Glocalization

2014

2013

The Helix Model of Innovation in Israelanother title

A dramatic wave of globalization throughout the 20th century–spurred by information and communication technology, and imprinted primarily by North American hegemony– resulted in a world that seems neither “flat” nor “spiky”. Globalization has not resulted in worldwide homogeneity; likewise, it has also not fully preserved national differences, let alone led to growing cross-national divergence. Rather, globalization has revealed itself as “glocalization” -- as a complex process that fuses the global and the local, and interlaces worldwide similarity with cross-national variation.Such realization has also struck scholars of organization and management, even if they have so far hardly referred to the very term “glocalization.” Drawing upon the richness of research on the diffusion of organizational and managerial ideas, we therefore reframe these adjustments in terms of the glocalization of organization and management.

Co-edited with Markus A. Höllerer and Peter Walgenbach.

Science in the

Modern

World Polity

Much like the concerns about the globalization of the economy, science is also thought of as a commodity, which is transferred across national boundaries, traded, and consumed. Such earlier work proceeded with the understanding that the globalization of science results from the interests, needs, and requirements of interested parties, such as local scientists. We expand on this rather limited body of literature by calling attention to the triumph of the authority of science and to the implication of such triumph for world processes and nation-states. Science, we argue, is a cultural institution, unique to the modern era and building upon Western thought. It is Enlightenment based, general understanding that science is central to a prosperous society that propels science into a global power. Furthermore, it is its authority as a worldwide “recipe,” or formula, for development that perpetuates its globalization.

Co-authored with John W. Meyer, Francisco O. Ramirez and Evan Schofer.

Global E-Litism:

Digital Technology, Social Inequality and Transnationality

The global diffusion of digital technology, which occurred more rapidly than the global diffusion of any technology previously, has been mired by its uneven distribution across, and unequal effects on, societies worldwide. In addition, policy initiatives to close this global digital divide, which peaked with the two WSIS conferences in the early 2000s, still did not change the course of this differentiated globalization process. The book describes the dimensions of the global digital divide, considers its definition as a global social problem, analyzes the place of policies in alleviating this problem, and the role of international organizations and advocacy groups in its dynamics.

What are the institutional and relational foundations for the recognition of Israel as "Start-Up Nation"? In this English and Hebrew compilation of research, we investigate the socio-political contingencies for innovation in Israel. We build upon Etzkowitz and Leydesdorff's original formulation of an innovation economy that weaves together the three "helices" of academia, industry and government. To this model, we add a consideration of the institutions of the military, financial sector, and civil society, while also discussing the role of the Israeli and Jewish diasporas. Together we draw a map of the Israeli exemplar for a national, globally-integrated knowledge economy.

Edited by Gili S. Drori; Chapters Contributed by Ohad Barkai, Amy Ben-Dor, Navah Berger, Alexandr Bucevschi, Noga Caspi, Avida Netivi; With Henry Etzkowitz.

Globalization and Organization

One of the dominant features of the age of globalization is the rampant expansion of organization. In particular, formal, standardized, rationalized, and empowered form of organization expands in many domains and locales. We discuss these features of organization, showing that hyper-rationalization and actorhood are main themes of organization across presumably distinct social sectors and national societies. Gathered in this edited volume are studies of the global dimensions of organization: from accounting standards (Jang) to in-house professional development programs (Luo) to corporate social responsibility (Khagram and Shanahan), the authors discuss the impact of world society on the features of organizations and on cross-national organizational dynamics.

Co-edited with John W. Meyer and Hokyu Hwang.

World Society:

The Writings of

John W. Meyer

The scholarship of John W. Meyer not only broke new grounds for institutional thought in sociology and made him into a key thinker in the emerging interdisciplinary field of neoinstitutionalism, but Meyer also established the comparative variant of institutional thought, which has been identified as world society theory. Throughout four decades of scholarly work, John W. Meyer touched upon almost all social processes – from stratification to globalization to socialization – and commented on almost all key social institutions – from science to religion to law to education. In this volume we highlight John W. Meyer’s multifaceted contribution to sociology and related areas of interdisciplinary research. In gathering a selection of John W. Meyer's work into this single volume, accompanied by an introductory chapter that reviews his scholarship and its relations with disciplinary scholarship, this book is both by John W. Meyer and about John W. Meyer.

Co-edited with Georg Krücken.