Grounds for comparative organization theory: Quicksands or hard core?

Abstract

It is difficult to define what an organization is, and easier to say what it is not. It is not a society, but something lesser than that. All organizations are within such an encompassing collectivity (or collectivities), though this may be seen with subtle variations as either a society, a nation, or a country. Not even multinational organizations float free of the societies within which and across which they operate. Such loopholes as they may find through the cultures and constraints of these societies are deviances implicitly acknowledging those influences, not actions as if there were none.