The Dynamics of Community Translation: Danish Health-Care Centres

Susanne Boch Waldorff; Royston Greenwood

doi:10.1108/S0733-558X(2011)0000033007

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Research in the Sociology of Organizations

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The Dynamics of Community Translation: Danish Health-Care Centres

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Title:	The Dynamics of Community Translation: Danish Health-Care Centres
Author(s):	Susanne Boch Waldorff, Royston Greenwood
Volume:	33 Editor(s): Christopher Marquis, Michael Lounsbury, Royston Greenwood ISBN: 978-1-78052-284-5 eISBN: 978-1-78052-285-2
Citation:	Susanne Boch Waldorff, Royston Greenwood (2011), The Dynamics of Community Translation: Danish Health-Care Centres, in Christopher Marquis, Michael Lounsbury, Royston Greenwood (ed.) Communities and Organizations (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Volume 33), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.113-142
DOI:	10.1108/S0733-558X(2011)0000033007 (Permanent URL)
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Article type:	Chapter Item
Abstract:	The geographically bounded community is explored as a political jurisdiction. Jurisdictions are important sites as local factors determine which political party is in power and because different professionals work within them. Jurisdictions are, thus, arenas for the expression of public policies, which have significant societal consequences. Specifically, we analyse 18 Danish municipalities and the local constructions of a new health-care organisation's focus either upon citizens in general or upon specific groups of patients. The study shows little evidence of specifically local translations. Instead, the study suggests the choice of focus – and underlying institutional logic – is influenced by the local actors' relationships with an external institutional context. Members of local political parties adopt the ideological position of the national party. Similarly, professionals employed locally push the ideology of their profession.