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AuthorAl-Saidi, Mohammad
Available date2023-09-04T05:37:20Z
Publication Date2022
Publication NameResearch Handbook on the Sociology of Organizations
Identifierhttp://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781839103261.00022
ISBN978 1 83910 325 4
URIhttp://hdl.handle.net/10576/47203
AbstractWorld polity theory as a part of sociological neo-institutionalism provides interesting insights into institutional change and similarities between national organizations. These organizations depend on rules and actor networks in a postulated world culture based on recipes for appropriate behavior of nation states and organizations. The field of natural resource management, and in particular sectors with strong global commitments such as the water sector, exhibits structural adjustment or isomorphism influenced by world polity. This paper aims to explain organizational isomorphism from a world polity perspective using the example of the water sector. Since the late 1980s, standardization and homogenization of national water organizations and policies have accelerated. Worldwide, national water organizations have emerged in a similar fashion based on universal paradigms and principles such as those related to the integration of management responsibilities, efficiency in resource use, and the participation of stakeholders or communities. This reorganization in the water sector has promoted certain best practices in sustainability and management, but it can also hinder problem solving regarding locally specific water issues.
Languageen
PublisherEdward Elgar Publishing, Inc
Subjectworld polity
world society
natural resources management
water sector
Integrated Water Resources Management
global sustainability agenda
TitleA world polity view on reorganization and institutional change in natural resources management
TypeBook chapter
Pagination242-259
EISBN978 1 83910 326 1
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