A 10‐YEAR RETROSPECTIVE OF ORGANIZATION STUDIES IN COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY: CONTENT, THEORY, AND IMPACT

In recent years, a group of scholars appears to have fostered an increased level of attention to the intersection of organization studies and community psychology. Boyd and Angelique (2002) rekindled the discourse on this topic by noting that the two fields have much to share with each other in terms of application and theory development. Their meta-analytic work was developed to test if Keys and Frank’s (1987) call for an increased focus on the intersection had been heeded by community psychology researchers. They found that only modest attention had been paid to the intersection in the 15 years after Keys and Frank’s work. Since the publication of Boyd and Angelique’s (2002) study, a number of events have marked a renewed interest in the intersection between community psychology and organization studies. In 2007, a special issue on organization studies was published in the Journal of Community Psychology (Boyd & Angelique, 2007), and in 2011, a special issue was published in the Journal of Prevention and Intervention in the Community, which focused on organization development in community contexts (Boyd, 2011a). Moreover, a series of conference symposia and presentations were delivered at Society for Community Research and Action biennials (e.g., Boyd & Nowell, 2011; Boyd, 2009; Boyd, Bess, Evans, Bond, & Griffith, 2007), Academy of Management meetings (e.g., Tschirhart, Boyd, Nowell, Bies, & Gronbjerg, 2010; Boyd, Nowell, Bess, Evans, & Lardon, 2009), and the Southeastern