Communities and Organizations Contributor(s): Marquis, Chris (Editor), Greenwood, Royston (Editor), Lounsbury, Michael (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1780522843 ISBN-13: 9781780522845 Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: November 2011 Click for more in this series: Research in the Sociology of Organizations |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Organizational Behavior - Business & Economics | Negotiating |
Dewey: 302.35 |
Series: Research in the Sociology of Organizations |
Physical Information: 1.4" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" L (1.55 lbs) 363 pages |
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Publisher Description: How does organizations' embeddedness in broader social and cultural communities influence their behavior? And how has this changed with recent communication technology advances and globalization trends? In this volume, we consider how diverse types of communities influence organizations, as well as the associated benefit of developing a richer accounting for community processes in organizational theory. One goal of the volume is to move beyond the focus on social proximity and networks that has characterized existing work on communities. The papers in this volume consider specific topics that expand the definition of community beyond geography to include how transnational communities form and affect organizations' perception, the development of a community-form (C-form) organization as an important organizational architecture for understanding twenty-first century business, and how virtual communities influence key organizational processes. While there has been a recent revival of research into the effects of both geographic and non-geographic communities on organizational behaviors, this volume is the first effort to bring both perspectives together in order to aid in the identification of common and disparate mechanisms across multiple types of communities and how community as an organizing logic sits vis-a-vis other logics related to the market, corporation, family and religion. |
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