TY - CHAP AB - 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. VL - 33 SN - 978-1-78052-284-5, 978-1-78052-285-2/0733-558X DO - 10.1108/S0733-558X(2011)0000033007 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X(2011)0000033007 AU - Boch Waldorff Susanne AU - Greenwood Royston ED - Christopher Marquis ED - Michael Lounsbury ED - Royston Greenwood PY - 2011 Y1 - 2011/01/01 TI - The Dynamics of Community Translation: Danish Health-Care Centres T2 - Communities and Organizations T3 - Research in the Sociology of Organizations PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 113 EP - 142 Y2 - 2024/03/29 ER -