Publication 2

Susanne Boch Waldorff, Department of Organization, CBS, and Royston Greenwood from University of Alberta have written the article 'The Dynamics of Community Translation: Danish Health Care Centers' which will be published in the American journal Research in the Sociology of Organizations.

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 analyze eighteen Danish municipalities and the local constructions of a new health care organization’s focus either upon citizens in general or 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.