New Frontiers in Community Research.

Humans have a fundamental need to belong and to be a part of a community, yet it is said that we are currently living in an "age of loneliness" plagued by isolation, fragmentation, and social disconnection. The changing nature of work offers limited opportunity to create the social glue that binds us together, and thus exacerbates social disconnection. Management scholars have been increasingly concerned with promoting a sense of community (SOC) in organizations. This symposium examines new frontiers in community research. Four of the papers included examine how community can be cultivated in non-traditional organizational settings such as co- working space (papers 1 and 2) and third places that are not the home or workplaces (paper 3) and emerge swiftly in temporary organizations (paper 4). Our collection of papers also addresses the consequences of experiences of community in non- traditional settings on thriving, well-being (paper 1 and 2), employee proactive and prosocial behavior (paper 3), and highlight community as an asset to draw from but also as an obligation or a source of responsibility (paper 5). This symposium integrates qualitative/quantitative methodologies drawing on a variety of micro/macro theoretical frameworks, challenging some of the self-imposed dichotomies around community and thus allows us to see other alternatives to building community in the 21st century and beyond. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]