ABSTRACT
Networked forms of organizing involve communication processes that are distinguished from hierarchical forms of power and control, yet the two forms, networked and hierarchical coexist. This chapter examines the ways organizations may use, but also recognize the challenges associated with-networked and hierarchical forms of organizing and how individual actions and communication by organizations within an interorganizational network support community-level initiatives. It also focuses on the community resilience as a form of community health, and then explains networked and hierarchical forms of organizing, which often are simultaneously present yet have been compared as oppositional ways to coordinate work. The chapter then talks about health and the ways community organizations build relationships that provide a social infrastructure to various public health needs that sets the stage for community resilience as a buffer to anticipated and unanticipated problems. An important feature of successfully managing public health and the general health of the community is the underlying social infrastructure created through cross-sector interorganizational communication.
