Communities and Organizations

Social scientists and business scholars explore how an organization's behavior is influenced by its being embedded in social and cultural communities. They consider community influence in a virtual and transnational age, political processes and organizational communities, communities and organizational culture and identity processes, and community social and relational embeddedness and organizations. The topics discussed include organizations in the shadow of communities, the dynamics of community translation in Danish health-care centers, competing logics and institutional change in the US banking industry, community context and founding processes of banking organizations, and variation in the embeddedness of social entrepreneurship across local communities. There is no index. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)