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Now Published: Communities and Organizations (Research in the Sociology of Organizations vol 33)

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9781780522845

ISSN: 0733-558X

Publication date: 22^nd November 2011

Synopsis:

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. This volume seeks to show that not only can normative systems be both place-bound, and virtual, and but that such benefits cannot be easily transferred from one local community to another. In addition, we highlight how the notion of community provides a distinct institutional order that enables actors to tailor community logics to give cultural meaning to and govern specific institutional fields.

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. Other topics also further the growing tradition focused on the importance of organizations embeddedness in geographic communities. Topic considered under this theme include, how local social embeddedness influences organization foundings and social relationships more broadly. The volume also considers how cognitive and normative features of communities shape organizational identities and associated behaviors and how local political and regulatory effects shape organizational forms and strategies. 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-à-vis other logics related to the market, corporation, family and religion.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Community as an Institutional Order and a Type of Organizing

Christopher Marquis, Michael Lounsbury, Royston Greenwood (pp. ix - xxvii)

Part I: Understanding Community Influence in a Virtual and Transnational Age

Organizations in the Shadow of Communities

Siobhan O'Mahony, Karim R. Lakhani (pp. 3 - 36)

An Initial Description of the C-Form

Marc-David L. Seidel, Katherine J. Stewart (pp. 37 - 72)

The Power of “Limited Liability” – Transnational Communities and Cross-Border Governance

Marie-Laure Djelic, Sigrid Quack (pp. 73 - 109)

Part II: Political Processes and Organizational Communities

The Dynamics of Community Translation: Danish Health-Care Centres

Susanne Boch Waldorff, Royston Greenwood (pp. 113 - 142)

Communities, Labor, and the Law: The Rise of Corporate Social Responsibility in the United States

Justin I. Miller, Doug Guthrie (pp. 143 - 173)

Part III: Community and Organizational Culture and Identity Processes

Explaining the Loss of Community: Competing Logics and Institutional Change in the us Banking Industry

Christopher Marquis, Zhi Huang, Juan Almandoz (pp. 177 - 213)

From Nutley to Paris: How the Culture of Communities Shapes Organizational Identity

Mary Ann Glynn, Daniel S. Halgin (pp. 215 - 249)

Part IV: Community Social and Relational Embeddedness and Organizations

Community Context and Founding Processes of Banking Organizations

John Freeman, Pino G. Audia (pp. 253 - 282)

Understanding Corporate Participation in Local Relational Networks: Corporate CEO Membership on Large Locally Headquartered Commercial Banks Boards in the 1960s

Donald Palmer, Matthew Zafonte (pp. 283 - 331)

The Embeddedness of Social Entrepreneurship: Understanding Variation across Local Communities

Christian Seelos, Johanna Mair, Julie Battilana, M. Tina Dacin (pp. 333 - 363)

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