Contents -- Tables, Figures, and Appendices -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART I: GLOBALIZATION AND EXPANDED MODELS OF THE ORGANIZED ACTOR -- 1. World Society and the Proliferation of Formal Organization -- 2. Global Scientization: An Environment for Expanded Organization -- 3. Planning Development: Globalization and the Shifting Locus of Planning -- 4. Governed by Governance: The New Prism for Organizational Change -- PART II: DIMENSIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL RATIONALIZATION -- 5. The Worldwide Diffusion of Business Education, 1881-1999: Historical Trajectory and Mechanisms of Expansion -- 6. The Making and Expansion of International Management Standards: The Global Diffusion of ISO 9000 Quality Management Certificates -- 7. Transparent Accounting as a World Societal Rule -- 8. Dynamics of Corporate Responsibility -- 9. The Spread of a 'Human Resources' Culture: Institutional Individualism and the Rise of Personal Development Training -- 10. Turning the University into an Organizational Actor -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.