(1) To compare, from the perspectives of people in affected nations, the diverse assumptions, interpretations, and organizational responses to complex globalization processes.
(2) To identify significant differences and consequences of the social institutions - customs, norms, associations, laws, governments - that manage and regulate organizational behaviors from the workplace to multinational corporations.
(3) To examine organizational networks of economic, technological, cultural, and political relations that interconnect the world's societies and nation-states.