Guide to Nursing Certification Organizations

2012 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 241-243
Author(s):  
&NA;
Keyword(s):  
Certification Organizations ◽  
Nursing Certification

Markets, Trust, and the Construction of Macro-Organizations

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nils Brunsson ◽  
Ingrid Gustafsson ◽  
Kristina Tamm Hallström
Keyword(s):  
Physical Environment ◽  
Stable Solution ◽  
Formal Organizations ◽  
Certification Organizations ◽  
Buying In ◽  
The Way

How can buyers know what they are buying? In many markets this is no trivial problem, particularly for ambitious, contemporary consumers who care about the way a product has been produced and its effects on health or the physical environment. Buyers have little choice but to trust sellers’ descriptions of the origins and effects of the product, which, in turn, evokes the question of how the buyers can trust the sellers. We describe how the problem of trust has justified the production of new formal organizations, such as certification organizations, accreditation organizations, meta-organizations for the accreditation organizations, and meta-meta-organizations for these meta-organizations. In order to create trust in organizations at one level, a new level of organizations has been created for monitoring the lower level. We argue that such a ‘macro-organization’ is unlikely to represent a stable solution, but has inherent tendencies for further growth.

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