33
views
0
recommends
+1 Recommend
0 collections
    0
    shares
      • Record: found
      • Abstract: found
      • Article: not found

      Organizational Ecology and Institutional Change in Global Governance

      Read this article at

      ScienceOpenPublisher
      Bookmark
          There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.

          Abstract

          The institutions of global governance have changed dramatically in recent years. New organizational forms—including informal institutions, transgovernmental networks, and private transnational regulatory organizations (PTROs)—have expanded rapidly, while the growth of formal intergovernmental organizations has slowed. Organizational ecology provides an insightful framework for understanding these changing patterns of growth. Organizational ecology is primarily a structural theory, emphasizing the influence of institutional environments, especially their organizational density and resource availability, on organizational behavior and viability. To demonstrate the explanatory value of organizational ecology, we analyze the proliferation of PTROs compared with the relative stasis of intergovernmental organizations (IGOs). Continued growth of IGOs is constrained by crowding in their dense institutional environment, but PTROs benefit from organizational flexibility and low entry costs, which allow them to enter “niches” with limited resource competition. We probe the plausibility of our analysis by examining contemporary climate governance.

          Related collections

          Most cited references19

          • Record: found
          • Abstract: not found
          • Article: not found

          The second image reversed: the international sources of domestic politics

            Bookmark
            • Record: found
            • Abstract: not found
            • Article: not found

            Can non-state global governance be legitimate? An analytical framework

              Bookmark
              • Record: found
              • Abstract: not found
              • Article: not found

              Concentration and Specialization: Dynamics of Niche Width in Populations of Organizations

                Bookmark

                Author and article information

                Journal
                applab
                International Organization
                Int Org
                Cambridge University Press (CUP)
                0020-8183
                1531-5088
                2016
                January 14 2016
                : 70
                : 02
                : 247-277
                Article
                10.1017/S0020818315000338
                bcad44d9-92eb-432e-a131-1e4f4d488dc1
                © 2016
                History

                Comments

                Comment on this article