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Overview

John W. Meyer is a researcher based at Stanford University in the United States. Their work predominantly spans the fields of Social Sciences and Business, Management and Accounting, with a significant focus on areas intersecting Political Science, Sociology, Organizational Behavior, Education, and Technology Management.

The main research topics covered by their work include:

  • Higher Education Governance and Development
  • Management and Organizational Studies
  • Social and Cultural Dynamics
  • Global Educational Policies and Reforms
  • Global Education and Multiculturalism
  • Social Policy and Reform Studies
  • Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences

Some recent academic papers authored or co-authored by Meyer include:

  • "The Societal Consequences of Higher Education" (2020) published in Sociology of Education
  • "Global Neoliberalism as a Cultural Order and Its Expansive Educational Effects" (2022) published in International Journal of Sociology
  • "Illiberal Reactions to Higher Education" (2022) published in Minerva
  • "The Social Effects of Entrepreneurship on Society and Some Potential Remedies: Four Provocations" (2023) published in Journal of Management Inquiry
  • "Hyper-Management: Neoliberal Expansions of Purpose and Leadership" (2021) published in Organization Theory

Frequent collaborators in their work include:

  • David John Frank
  • Ronald L. Jepperson
  • Patricia Bromley
  • Evan Schofer
  • Julia C. Lerch

Meyer has published multiple books, mainly with Princeton University Press and Cambridge University Press. At Princeton University Press, there are three editions of The University and the Global Knowledge Society all published in 2020, while at Cambridge University Press they published Institutional Theory in 2021.

Their work has appeared in the following frequent publication venues:

  • Minerva
  • Sociology of Education
  • International Journal of Sociology
  • Journal of Management Inquiry
  • Organization Theory

Best Publications

  • Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony

    John W. Meyer;Brian Rowan

  • World society and the nation-state

    John W. Meyer;John Boli;George M. Thomas;Francisco O. Ramirez

  • Organizational Environments: Ritual and Rationality

    John W. Meyer;W. Richard Scott

  • Institutional conditions for diffusion

    David Strang;David Strang;John W. Meyer;John W. Meyer

  • The Worldwide Expansion of Higher Education in the Twentieth Century

    Evan Schofer;John W. Meyer

  • The Effects of Education as an Institution

    John W. Meyer

  • Institutional Environments and Organizations: Structural Complexity and Individualism

    W. Richard Scott;John W. Meyer;John Boli

  • The “Actors” of Modern Society: The Cultural Construction of Social Agency

    John W. Meyer;Ronald L. Jepperson

  • World Expansion of Mass Education, 1870-1980

    John W. Meyer

  • World Society, Institutional Theories, and the Actor

    John W. Meyer

  • Centralization and the Legitimacy Problems of Local Government

    J. W. Meyer

  • Equal Opportunity Law and the Construction of Internal Labor Markets

    Frank Dobbin;John R. Sutton;John W. Meyer;W. Richard Scott

  • Institutional and technical sources of organizational structure explaining the structure of educational organizations

    John W. Meyer

  • Explaining the Origins and Expansion of Mass Education

    John Boli;Francisco O. Ramirez;John W. Meyer

  • Institutional Structure: Constituting State, Society and the Individual

    Kenneth Dauber;George M. Thomas;John W. Meyer;Francisco O. Ramirez

  • The Structuring of a World Environmental Regime, 1870–1990

    John W. Meyer;David John Frank;Ann Hironaka;Evan Schofer

  • Weltkultur : wie die westlichen Prinzipien die Welt durchdringen

    John W. Meyer;Georg Krücken;Barbara Kuchler

  • School Knowledge for the Masses: World Models and National Primary Curricular Categories in the Twentieth Century

    John W. Meyer;David Kamens;Aaron Benavot

  • Globalization and Organization: World Society and Organizational Change

    Gili S. Drori;John W. Meyer;Hokyu Hwang

  • Institutions, Institutional Effects, and Institutionalism (1991)

    Ronald L. Jepperson;John W. Meyer

  • Organizational Environments: Ritual and Rationality

    Henry Levin;John W. Meyer;W. Richard Scott

  • Organizational Environments: Ritual and Rationality.

    Glenn R. Carroll;John W. Meyer;W. Richard Scott;Brian Rowan

  • Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony (translated by Igor Chirikov)

    John Meyer;Brian Rowan

Frequent Co-Authors

Francisco O. Ramirez
Francisco O. Ramirez Stanford University
Brian Rowan
Brian Rowan University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Michael T. Hannan
Michael T. Hannan Stanford University
Immanuel Wallerstein
Immanuel Wallerstein Yale University
Kimberly D. Elsbach
Kimberly D. Elsbach University of California, Davis
Walter W. Powell
Walter W. Powell Stanford University
David P. Baker
David P. Baker Pennsylvania State University
Charles C. Ragin
Charles C. Ragin University of California, Irvine

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