All around the world, societies are experiencing an explosion of organizations and organizing: community clubs, religious groups, social movements, as well as schools, hospitals, businesses and government agencies, increasingly take the form of complex and formal organization. Why? Why is global...

The process of globalization has led to an intensification of global interdependencies and the consolidation of the global as a social horizon. This has provided fertile breeding grounds for new organizations and the elaboration of existing ones. This book analyzes these organizations, and the...