Introduction / by Ralph Stacey -- Local and global processes in organizational life / by Ralph Stacey -- The local experience of a global diversity initiative in a multinational pharmaceutical company / by David Scanlon -- The emergence of global stability in local interaction in a consulting...

The concept of a community form is drawn upon in many sub-fields of organizational theory. Although there is not much convergence on a level of analysis, there is convergence on a mode of action that is increasingly relevant to a knowledge-based economy marked by porous and shifting...