ABSTRACT
The traditional defi nition of community has included groups loosely or tightly associated through some unifying trait or issue such as ethnicity, politics, gender, work, and geographic location. Since technology and globalization have erased many geographic barriers in the last generation, the defi nition of community has changed dramatically. Just as people of like minds are now easily connected through online communities, multinational organizations, while headquartered in one place, may have plants and other operations scattered across the globe.
