original_query: What is the role of plagiarism in organizational publications?
query: What is the role of plagiarism in organizational publications?
answer: Plagiarism is presumably not an issue when organizations issue collective unsigned works since they do not assign credit for originality to particular people.  For example, textbooks and encyclopedias, being summaries of other scholars' work, are not bound by the same standards of attribution as original research and may be allowed a greater "extent of dependence" on other works. However, even such a book should not use words, phrases, or paragraphs from another text or follow too closely the other text's arrangement and organization; authors are still expected to acknowledge sources of recent or distinctive findings and interpretations.