ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on foreign aid organizations, which are major agents in the global spread of organizations. This is so for three reasons: First, foreign aid organizations are permanently situated at the interface between industrialized and developing countries. Second, they are more committed than any other type of organization to promoting world society. Third, they deal reflexively with the subject of organization, since aid organizations typically regard themselves as specialists in the analysis of other organizations as their 'partner organizations' in the Third World. Besides the information and education programs and the infrastructure measures cast in concrete and steel, foreign aid also produced organizations. However, this relation is often unofficially reversed, and projects basically follow the rules and standards established by Western foreign aid organizations. Modernization theory was predicated on the assumption that these 'blurred' and only partially delimited organizations in developing countries were bound to become decent organizations with well-established boundaries, mirroring their models in the West.
