ContentsPreface xvii1 What meta-organizations are 1Héloïse Berkowitz, Sanne Bor, and Nils Brunsson2 How meta-organizations matter 15Héloïse Berkowitz, Sanne Bor, and Nils BrunssonPART I HOW META-ORGANIZATIONS AFFECT THEIR MEMBERS3 What are meta-organizations allowed to do? Dimensions anddynamics of mandates 29Sanne Bor and Ville-Pekka Sorsa4 Who does the job? Workforces of meta-organizations 45Sanne Bor and Argyro Almpanopoulou5 Unnoticed, ghosted, and scapegoated: a study of weakenedmeta-organization-member relationships 71Susanna AlexiusPART II HOW META-ORGANIZATIONS AFFECT OTHERS6 Building meta-organizational expertise: The case of theCollectif des Festivals' sustainability expertise 98Sihem Mammar El Hadj, Laura Sabbado, and Ingrid Mazzilli7 How meta-organizations influence their social environment:the case of the International Council for the Exploration ofthe Sea 122Kurt Rachlitz, Michael Grothe-Hammer, and Jennifer Leigh Bailey8 Meta-organizations and the making of a neocolonialist globalorder 149José Augusto Lacerda Fernandes, Mariana Baldi, FernandoDias Lopes, and Héloïse BerkowitzPART III LANDSCAPES OF META-ORGANIZATIONS9 Meta-organizations and other inter-organizationalarrangements in the French women's cause field 172Pierre Garaudel, Clotilde Coron, and Géraldine Schmidt10 International groups in organizing world politics: the case ofthe G20 193Martin KochPART IV WHAT NEXT?11 More to learn about meta-organizations! 213Héloïse Berkowitz, Sanne Bor, and Nils Brunsson.