Abstract: While going through a revival in sociology and business studies, the concept of communi... more Abstract: While going through a revival in sociology and business studies, the concept of communities, as used in those disciplines, appears to confront, in an unresolved tension, the development of differentiated and transnationally interconnected modern societies. We argue that there is a need not only to “rediscover” but in fact also to “renew” the notion of community. Building on insights from classical sociology, we propose a definition of transnational communities as social groups emerging from mutual interaction across ...
Abstract 1. This issue of Organization Studies is organized around the integration of different a... more Abstract 1. This issue of Organization Studies is organized around the integration of different approaches to the study of institutions, markets and organizations. The papers presented here focus on the dynamics of interaction between institutions, industries, organizational forms and the strategic behaviour of firms, especially the structural change of economies, industries or organizational forms. All papers include an historical perspective, to a greater or lesser extent, and, in fact, a longitudinal approach and historical tools and methods are ...
Capitalisms and Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century, 2012
Over the last decades, we have seen a multiplication of transnational standardsetting initiatives... more Over the last decades, we have seen a multiplication of transnational standardsetting initiatives. We live today more than ever in a transnational 'world of standards'(Brunsson and Jacobsson 2000). Multi-stakeholder arrangements, with a varying combination of public and private actors, come together and produce rules or 'soft laws' often with a transnational ambition if not reach (Djelic and Sahlin-Andersson 2006; Graz and Nölke 2008; Tamm Hallström and Böstrom 2010; Brunsson, Rasche, and Seidl 2011; see, also, Gessner in ...
... or foreign entrants, to redefine rules of the game in an industry or impose&#... more ... or foreign entrants, to redefine rules of the game in an industry or impose'new'ones in ... A building up and aggre-gation of multiple micro changes through such a process is ... down Trajectories With respect to the influence of transnational rules on national systems, con-tributions ...
The transnationalization of our world, sometimes hastily labelled 'globa... more The transnationalization of our world, sometimes hastily labelled 'globalization', is not only—and far from it—about flows of goods, capital, or people. Nor is transnationalization simply a discourse even though it does have important discursive dimensions. Together with others, we suggest that our transnationalizing world is also defined by powerful dynamics of reordering. Some contributions point to the emergence of an 'audit society'where accounting and control become powerful social and institutional practices with an increasingly ...
"In 1945, antitrust was an American legal tradition with no impact beyond the na... more "In 1945, antitrust was an American legal tradition with no impact beyond the national borders of the United States. American antitrust reflected the double belief that competition should be the highest organizing principle and that the economy functions best when competitors have limits for permitted activities. Outside the United States, competition was feared rather than fostered for its potentially disruptive and chaotic consequences. Sixty years later, we can see that a major reversal of trend has taken place. Competition has become the name of the game, both in national and international economic spaces. About one hundred countries have today a competition policy and competition institutions that seem quite compatible, at first sight, with the American antitrust tradition. The last few years have also seen multiple attempts at fostering antitrust principles and institutions within the transnational space as well as initiatives to spread a “culture” of antitrust. Those have culminated in 2002 with the creation of the International Competition Network (ICN). The ICN is a virtual network organization where national and regional antitrust agencies collaborate in their fight for competition. It is quite open to inputs from experts, consultants, academics or even firms and industries and the principal aim of that network is to push along and further the establishment, the implementation and the monitoring of global and “seamless” practices and standards. The object of this chapter is to try and follow the genealogy of this “community of interests”, as the founding fathers of ICN like to call it. How does one go from a peculiar and quite isolated national regulation to a transnational system of governance? Understanding the process by which emerging transnational actors have been and are being constructed is a necessary first step, we believe, to understanding the ways in which they function and the modes of governance they reveal (see also Marcussen this volume). After telling rapidly of the American origins of antitrust, we focus in turn on two important stages. First, we recount how antitrust crossed the United States borders after 1945 and was transplanted in a small number of countries and supranational bodies. This was a double story of exportation and importation. Then, the scale and scope of transfer accelerating significantly in the 1990s; we identify the steps that were taken during that decade to overcome simple internationalization and to move towards global or transnational governance. The setting-up of the ICN embodies this evolution and reveals this ambitious project. In the discussion, we look at the ICN as an important actor of global or transnational governance. As such, we identify its constitutive features and wonder about similarities and differences with other types of transnational governance spaces and actors. "
La managérialisation de la sphère publique est aujourd'hui dans l&am... more La managérialisation de la sphère publique est aujourd'hui dans l'air du temps. La réforme de l'Etat semble passer par l'importation et l'appropriation des pratiques et de l'esprit du management-avec promesse à la clef d'une plus grande rationalité et d'une meilleure efficience. En faisant un retour en arrière sur le contexte et les conditions de l'arrivée du management en France après la deuxième guerre mondiale, cet article offre une autre perspective sur les développements contemporains. Le management, au sens moderne ...
"This article starts with a description in broad strokes of the intellectual her... more "This article starts with a description in broad strokes of the intellectual heritage shaping institutionalism in different social science disciplines. Then, a number of debates serve as points of entry to approach the question of coherence or diversity. The definition of institutions, the double issue of change and emergence, and the question of action and agency are explored in turn. Those are key questions today, with which scholars are grappling across and beyond disciplinary boundaries. A red thread throughout the article is to ponder whether the exploration of these questions reveals enduring and tight boundaries, or whether it shows instead increasing coherence and proximity within the broad institutionalist family. In the concluding section, the article goes back to this thread. Keywords: intellectual heritage, social science, coherence, diversity, proximity"
"‘This valuable edited volume will move forward the debate on national business systems/vari... more "‘This valuable edited volume will move forward the debate on national business systems/varieties of capitalism in the context of globalization and provide new directions for it. Both in its persuasive theoretical sections and in its empirical chapters, the work shifts our focus to the transnational space and its interaction with national and sub-national levels. It moves away from a determinist institutionalist analysis and puts more emphasis on actors at sub-national level and their contribution to a complex and multi-directional process of non-linear change. The volume is particularly preoccupied with rule-making at the transnational level and the impact of new rules on national institutions. In contrast to many conference volumes, this one excels through a genuine integration of theory with empirical chapters and through a selection of authors who all tackle new and highly topical aspects of economic globalization.’ – Christel Lane, University of Cambridge and St John’s College, Cambridge, UK ‘The rapid rise of supra-national institutions, in Europe and worldwide, has had a great impact on the ways business organizes and operates. New rules and regulations, professions, organizations, and models arise and become established. They provide new uncertainties and opportunities, but in any case greatly change the conditions businesses confront. Marie-Laure Djelic and Sigrid Quack have put together a set of most impressive studies analyzing the whole process as it occurs in different economic sectors, and have presented these in a conceptual frame that helps the reader make sense of them. The studies here focus on the two main issues at hand in globalization or Europeanization. They analyze the rise, nature, and spread of the new institutional systems. And they analyze the impact of these systems on formerly-national businesses and economic arrangements. Readers concerned with the impact of globalization and the new Europe on business and economic organization will find the studies here invaluable.’ – John Meyer, Stanford University, US This volume investigates the relationship between economic globalization and institutions, or global governance, challenging the common assumption that globalization and institutionalization are essentially processes which exclude each other. Instead, the contributors to this book show that globalization is better perceived as a dual process of institutional change at the national level, and institution building at the transnational level. Rich, supporting empirical evidence is provided along with a theoretical conceptualisation of the main actors, mechanisms and conditions involved in trickle-up and trickle-down trajectories through which national institutional systems are being transformed and transnational rules emerge."
Abstract: While going through a revival in sociology and business studies, the concept of communi... more Abstract: While going through a revival in sociology and business studies, the concept of communities, as used in those disciplines, appears to confront, in an unresolved tension, the development of differentiated and transnationally interconnected modern societies. We argue that there is a need not only to “rediscover” but in fact also to “renew” the notion of community. Building on insights from classical sociology, we propose a definition of transnational communities as social groups emerging from mutual interaction across ...
Abstract 1. This issue of Organization Studies is organized around the integration of different a... more Abstract 1. This issue of Organization Studies is organized around the integration of different approaches to the study of institutions, markets and organizations. The papers presented here focus on the dynamics of interaction between institutions, industries, organizational forms and the strategic behaviour of firms, especially the structural change of economies, industries or organizational forms. All papers include an historical perspective, to a greater or lesser extent, and, in fact, a longitudinal approach and historical tools and methods are ...
Capitalisms and Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century, 2012
Over the last decades, we have seen a multiplication of transnational standardsetting initiatives... more Over the last decades, we have seen a multiplication of transnational standardsetting initiatives. We live today more than ever in a transnational 'world of standards'(Brunsson and Jacobsson 2000). Multi-stakeholder arrangements, with a varying combination of public and private actors, come together and produce rules or 'soft laws' often with a transnational ambition if not reach (Djelic and Sahlin-Andersson 2006; Graz and Nölke 2008; Tamm Hallström and Böstrom 2010; Brunsson, Rasche, and Seidl 2011; see, also, Gessner in ...
... or foreign entrants, to redefine rules of the game in an industry or impose&#... more ... or foreign entrants, to redefine rules of the game in an industry or impose'new'ones in ... A building up and aggre-gation of multiple micro changes through such a process is ... down Trajectories With respect to the influence of transnational rules on national systems, con-tributions ...
The transnationalization of our world, sometimes hastily labelled 'globa... more The transnationalization of our world, sometimes hastily labelled 'globalization', is not only—and far from it—about flows of goods, capital, or people. Nor is transnationalization simply a discourse even though it does have important discursive dimensions. Together with others, we suggest that our transnationalizing world is also defined by powerful dynamics of reordering. Some contributions point to the emergence of an 'audit society'where accounting and control become powerful social and institutional practices with an increasingly ...
"In 1945, antitrust was an American legal tradition with no impact beyond the na... more "In 1945, antitrust was an American legal tradition with no impact beyond the national borders of the United States. American antitrust reflected the double belief that competition should be the highest organizing principle and that the economy functions best when competitors have limits for permitted activities. Outside the United States, competition was feared rather than fostered for its potentially disruptive and chaotic consequences. Sixty years later, we can see that a major reversal of trend has taken place. Competition has become the name of the game, both in national and international economic spaces. About one hundred countries have today a competition policy and competition institutions that seem quite compatible, at first sight, with the American antitrust tradition. The last few years have also seen multiple attempts at fostering antitrust principles and institutions within the transnational space as well as initiatives to spread a “culture” of antitrust. Those have culminated in 2002 with the creation of the International Competition Network (ICN). The ICN is a virtual network organization where national and regional antitrust agencies collaborate in their fight for competition. It is quite open to inputs from experts, consultants, academics or even firms and industries and the principal aim of that network is to push along and further the establishment, the implementation and the monitoring of global and “seamless” practices and standards. The object of this chapter is to try and follow the genealogy of this “community of interests”, as the founding fathers of ICN like to call it. How does one go from a peculiar and quite isolated national regulation to a transnational system of governance? Understanding the process by which emerging transnational actors have been and are being constructed is a necessary first step, we believe, to understanding the ways in which they function and the modes of governance they reveal (see also Marcussen this volume). After telling rapidly of the American origins of antitrust, we focus in turn on two important stages. First, we recount how antitrust crossed the United States borders after 1945 and was transplanted in a small number of countries and supranational bodies. This was a double story of exportation and importation. Then, the scale and scope of transfer accelerating significantly in the 1990s; we identify the steps that were taken during that decade to overcome simple internationalization and to move towards global or transnational governance. The setting-up of the ICN embodies this evolution and reveals this ambitious project. In the discussion, we look at the ICN as an important actor of global or transnational governance. As such, we identify its constitutive features and wonder about similarities and differences with other types of transnational governance spaces and actors. "
La managérialisation de la sphère publique est aujourd'hui dans l&am... more La managérialisation de la sphère publique est aujourd'hui dans l'air du temps. La réforme de l'Etat semble passer par l'importation et l'appropriation des pratiques et de l'esprit du management-avec promesse à la clef d'une plus grande rationalité et d'une meilleure efficience. En faisant un retour en arrière sur le contexte et les conditions de l'arrivée du management en France après la deuxième guerre mondiale, cet article offre une autre perspective sur les développements contemporains. Le management, au sens moderne ...
"This article starts with a description in broad strokes of the intellectual her... more "This article starts with a description in broad strokes of the intellectual heritage shaping institutionalism in different social science disciplines. Then, a number of debates serve as points of entry to approach the question of coherence or diversity. The definition of institutions, the double issue of change and emergence, and the question of action and agency are explored in turn. Those are key questions today, with which scholars are grappling across and beyond disciplinary boundaries. A red thread throughout the article is to ponder whether the exploration of these questions reveals enduring and tight boundaries, or whether it shows instead increasing coherence and proximity within the broad institutionalist family. In the concluding section, the article goes back to this thread. Keywords: intellectual heritage, social science, coherence, diversity, proximity"
"‘This valuable edited volume will move forward the debate on national business systems/vari... more "‘This valuable edited volume will move forward the debate on national business systems/varieties of capitalism in the context of globalization and provide new directions for it. Both in its persuasive theoretical sections and in its empirical chapters, the work shifts our focus to the transnational space and its interaction with national and sub-national levels. It moves away from a determinist institutionalist analysis and puts more emphasis on actors at sub-national level and their contribution to a complex and multi-directional process of non-linear change. The volume is particularly preoccupied with rule-making at the transnational level and the impact of new rules on national institutions. In contrast to many conference volumes, this one excels through a genuine integration of theory with empirical chapters and through a selection of authors who all tackle new and highly topical aspects of economic globalization.’ – Christel Lane, University of Cambridge and St John’s College, Cambridge, UK ‘The rapid rise of supra-national institutions, in Europe and worldwide, has had a great impact on the ways business organizes and operates. New rules and regulations, professions, organizations, and models arise and become established. They provide new uncertainties and opportunities, but in any case greatly change the conditions businesses confront. Marie-Laure Djelic and Sigrid Quack have put together a set of most impressive studies analyzing the whole process as it occurs in different economic sectors, and have presented these in a conceptual frame that helps the reader make sense of them. The studies here focus on the two main issues at hand in globalization or Europeanization. They analyze the rise, nature, and spread of the new institutional systems. And they analyze the impact of these systems on formerly-national businesses and economic arrangements. Readers concerned with the impact of globalization and the new Europe on business and economic organization will find the studies here invaluable.’ – John Meyer, Stanford University, US This volume investigates the relationship between economic globalization and institutions, or global governance, challenging the common assumption that globalization and institutionalization are essentially processes which exclude each other. Instead, the contributors to this book show that globalization is better perceived as a dual process of institutional change at the national level, and institution building at the transnational level. Rich, supporting empirical evidence is provided along with a theoretical conceptualisation of the main actors, mechanisms and conditions involved in trickle-up and trickle-down trajectories through which national institutional systems are being transformed and transnational rules emerge."
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