Professor John W. Meyer
Professor John W. Meyer

Score anordnar vartannat år (ibland oftare) Score Lectures on Organization. Dessa är öppna föreläsningar eller seminarier dit framstående internationella forskare har bjudits in för att föreläsa om sin forskning inom organisation.

I år gästades Score av Professor John W. Meyer från Stanford University som gav föreläsningen Highly Institutionalized Organization: Status and Prospect.

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Score Lecture on Organization
Score Lecture on Organization

Abstract
Contemporary organizations are, in good part, constructions of organizational theories, which thus have an interdependent relationship with their objects of study.  An older modernity imagined bureaucracy, for better or worse, as canonical. The breakdown of this model in the post-War period, generated models of organizations as more or less rational, autonomous and responsible managed "actors" interdependent with their environments.

The worldwide success of such notions and organizations in every social sector reflecting them -- indicated, for instance, by the explosion of business schools around the world -- generates greatly expanded responsibilities for such "actors," and densely organized environments asserting these responsibilities. So contemporary organizations theory is filled with depictions of complex environments, multiple and inconsistent logics or orders of worth, and the resultant limited or "partial" possibilities for coherence.  The rather fragile structures that result depend heavily on cultural legitimacy rather than clear functional justifications.  As the legitimacy involved weakens in a post-neoliberal period, substantial changes in organizational theories, models and ideologies should follow. Some possibilities are discussed.