Social Sciences
Global Organisations
Global organizations are entities that operate across national borders, with a focus on addressing global issues such as poverty, human rights, and environmental sustainability. These organizations often include international governmental organizations (IGOs) like the United Nations, as well as non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and multinational corporations that work on a global scale to achieve their objectives.
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eBook - PDFOrganizational Dimensions of Global Change
No Limits to Cooperation
- David Cooperrider, Jane Dutton, David L. Cooperrider, Jane E. Dutton(Authors)
- 1999(Publication Date)
- SAGE Publications, Inc(Publisher)
236 COLLABORATION AND PARTNERSHIP A R R A N G E M E N T S ironic communications, builds issue-oriented, low-density organizational networks. I suggest that this aspect of social network theory offers a produc-tive avenue for understanding the growth and resiliency of global issue organizations. In addition to this brief glimpse of global organizations from a theoretical perspective, I suggest several assumptions and values underlying the apparent wide interest in global organizations, paying attention to what may be internal contradictions within this movement and perhaps to significant theoretical issues involved in building an organization theory in this area. My second purpose here is to examine the wider context and the larger forces that will affect the survival and success of global organizations. As an example, we should include discussion of ways in which economic globali-zation may be affecting social stability and cohesion. In this vein, the chapter briefly examines several global phenomena that affect social issues: a resur-gence of ethno-nationalism, the internationalization of crime, and conflicting views of justice that circumscribe the efforts of global change organizations. First, what do we mean by a global organization in the nonprofit field? Let us begin with Elise Boulding's (1988) definition of international nongov-ernmental organizations (INGOs) as transnational voluntary associations covering the whole range of human interests from sports, occupations, civic affairs, science, and commerce, to culture and religion (p. 118). The organi-zations I would like to discuss are not necessarily voluntary, although they often may be so in large part. More important, the global change organization of interest here is problem, or improvement, oriented, where the problem or issue is perceived to transcend established organizational or political bounda-ries.
eBook - PDFPractising Social Work Sociologically
A Theoretical approach for New Times
- Priscilla Dunk-West, Fiona Verity(Authors)
- 2018(Publication Date)
- Bloomsbury Academic(Publisher)
94 8 Organisations and Sociological Social Work Introduction A theme central to this book is the value of theoretical reference points which are strongly aligned with both the interpersonal dimen-sion of social work and the political and socio-economic conditions within which social work is located. With this in mind, our attention in this chapter moves to the organisational contexts of social work practice. The challenges created by evolving managerialist and eco-nomic rationalist discourses and practices, coupled with variants of risk management and ‘austerity’ policies, run deep (Dominelli, 1997 ; Ife, 1997 ; Crimeen and Wilson, 1997 ; Froggett, 2002 ; Ferguson and Lavalette, 2013 ). In some contexts it is not unusual for social work-ers to work within an ever-narrowing frame of reference (Ferguson and Lavalette, 2013 ). ‘Risk-averse’ organisational systems and cultures also have impacted on social work practice in ways that are limiting (Dunk-West and Verity, 2013 ). These practices have deep implications for what takes place in organisations. They require a means to ‘…inter-pret and navigate the tensions between organisational remit and social work role and the emotions this will generate’ (Dunk-West and Verity, 2013 , p. 49). Eldridge and Crombie published a book in 1974 on the sociology of organisations, in which they trace key ideas from the classical sociologists. Eldridge and Crombie ( 1974 , p. 21) demonstrate how the concepts we use about organisations can direct how we proceed to explore them. They cite Talcott Parsons (1960), who identified organisations as entities ‘… deliberately constructed and reconstructed to seek specific goals or values’ (Eldridge and Crombie, 1974 , p. 23). Organisations are not to be regarded as fixed in stone but are better seen as relations and practices that are ORGANISATIONS AND SOCIOLOGICAL SOCIAL WORK 95 organised for a reason.
eBook - PDF- Maleehah Gull(Author)
- 2019(Publication Date)
- Society Publishing(Publisher)
The Role of Global Organizations CHAPTER 2 Be that as it may, why states utilize worldwide organizations as motors for participation? A few issues are raised by their structure and activities, and furthermore by worldwide relations speculations including these unpredictable marvels. The autonomy of these organizations relies upon states, since they can restrict or expand their self-sufficiency, meddling in their action, rebuild or break down them. They now and again slam into the sway of the state when they make new structures for managing cross-outskirt connections. One of the primary reasons why states need to build up or take an interest as individuals from worldwide organizations is identified with the way that they delegate specialist in issues that require aptitude, learning, data, time and assets that are not accessible by any stretch of the imagination times (Wouters and de Man, 2009). As we probably are aware them today, worldwide organizations can be a supplement to national winning worldview, being an outflow of denationalization approaches (Zürn, 2004). What’s more, this is an apparent certainty by supranational and transnational attributes of undermining national choices, utilizing the standard of worldwide participation. Be that as it may, the politicization of these choices brings again into inquiry their requirement for authenticity . Two significant highlights have the effect between worldwide organizations and other sort of organizations: centralizations of intensity and decision-making self-governance. Both have political impacts past the basic adequacy of the officially taken choices, since they take after such a great amount with governments or private organizations. Worldwide organizations complete activities that appreciate Managing Global Organizations 14 a kind of authenticity and influence the authenticity of the state action.
eBook - PDF- J. Whitman(Author)
- 2009(Publication Date)
- Palgrave Macmillan(Publisher)
The additional consideration of actors other than states in the processes of global governance leads to a number of unexpected conclu- sions (at least for Realists and liberal institutionalists) about international politics and international organizations. global governance as international organization 69 definitions of global governance Global governance is too new a notion to be defined in many political science lexicons, or even in the online edition of The Oxford English Dictionary. However, in its inaugural edition in 1995, the journal Global Governance: A Review Multilateralism and International Organizations contained definitional attempts by James N. Rosenau and Lawrence S. Finkelstein. Rosenau writes that governance is concerned with the mechanisms of control (both transnational and subnational practices and institutions) that are essentially related to one another, and when taken together con- stitute systems of rule. He emphasizes the exponential growth of inter- dependence as actors proliferate to meet the new needs that are created. The existing world order remains without overarching authority, which does not mean that there is no structure: 'Governance encompasses the activities of governments, but it also includes the many other channels through which "commands" flow in the form of goals framed, direct- ives issued, and policies pursued: ll There is no global ordering prin- ciple, but global governance is usefully seen as the sum of the formal and informal mechanisms that ensure partial ordering - what Rosenau poetically calls a 'crazy quilt'. Finkelstein wrote that 'global' denotes a world in which actors other than states play an increasingly important role, and in which decision- making processes are multilevel, connected both within and between states.
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