Hallstr繹m (Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research, Sweden) and Bostr繹m (S繹dert繹rn U. College, Sweden) analyze the global and historical shifts occurring at the macro level--economic,
political, and cultural globalization--and their role in the organizational processes involved in the establishment, maintenance, and challenges of non-state authority. The authors focus on and
compare standard-setting practices and processes of three traditional standard setters that follow a multi-stakeholder approach: the standard-setting activities conducted by the Forest
Stewardship Council and the Marine Stewardship Council, and the process of writing the ISO 26000 standard on SR hosted by ISO. They theorize the fragility of authority defined as legitimate
power, and examine the problematic nature of the long-term transnational multi-stakeholder work upon which this authority is based. For scholars of organizational studies, sociology, political
science, and related fields; practitioners such as standardization experts, managers, management consultants, movement intellectuals; and policymakers. Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc.,
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