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THEORIZING INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS The Organizational Turn in International Organization Theory by David C. Ellis, U.S. Department of Defense International Organization (IO) theory and Organization Theory (OT) both study the phenom- ena of organizations but with starkly different assumptions about their agency and autonomy. This article suggests that a corporate ontology of organizations derived from OT, which assumes organizations possess agency and autonomy, will better serve the IO subfield than its current state-centric ontology, which causes IO scholars to debate IO agency and autonomy in episte- mological and methodological terms. The article first compares and contrasts the conception of organizations according to OT and IO. It then reviews the trends in IO scholarship, which indicate a movement toward a corporate ontology of IOs. Finally, the article relates how exist- ing IO methodologies are utilized across the levels of analysis in OT and suggests how some OT methods could inform future IO scholarship. themselves are important units of analysis, precisely because they take Organizations. . . . . . . . . . . on.a.life.and.character.of.their.own..And.those.lives.and.characters,.emerging.from.the. anized.action,.should.receive.direct.and.critical.observation..International. ernational.or- ganizations.emerge.and.what.they.do.in.action.–.in.short,.if.we.pay.greater.attention.to. organizational.performance..(Ness..Brechin,.1988,.p..270) .O .a .c .a .a .s .p .i .a .a .a International rganizations re orporations nd, s uch, ossess nherent gency nd u- tonomy..Approached.from.the.perspective.of.OT,.this.statement.is.uncontroversial.and.mun- dane..To.IO.scholars,.the.statement.requires.substantial.justification.and.even.then.meets. with.ske