Ghosts of Organizations Past: Communities of Organizations as Settings for Change

by Dan Ryan

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 alcohol and other drugs, Ryan shows how the normal properties of organizations generate apparent pathologies. He shows how the "ghosts," or artifacts, of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439912556
• ISBN13: 9781439912553
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.2"