Ghosts of organizations past : communities of organizations as settings for change /
In Ghosts of Organizations Past, Dan Ryan asks, "Why are urban communities such hard places to implement community improvement programs?" Looking at New Haven, Connecticut, and a now-defunct program called Fighting Back, which was created to build community coalitions against the abuse of...
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I. From Opportunity to Disaster (and Back Again); 1. The Ghosts of Organizations Past; Part II. Disaster and Opportunity; 2. From Disaster to Opportunity; 3. From Opportunity to Disaster; Part III. Communities and Organizations; 4. What Kind of Thing Is Community?; 5. What Kind of Thing Is an Organization?; 6. Doing Things with Organizations in Communities; Part IV. Organizing Organizations; 7. Doing Things with Organizations: The Cost of Organizational Diversity; 8. Doing Things with Organizations: The Cost of System.
- 9. Networks of Garbage Cans: The Amplification of Irrationality10. Networks and Calendar Noise; Part V. Social Organizational Junkyards; 11. Community as Organizational Junkyard; 12. Why Can't Organizations Be Like Us?; Bibliography; Index.
