Are you looking for the topic of intentional communities compared to startups? Or just intentional communities in general?
The Fellowship for Intentional Community is a great resource for the latter, see http://ic.org/
"Activism Or Escapism: Making Sense of 21st Century Communes"
by M. Jade Aguilar has a lot of references. Text seems to be paywalled, but maybe you can find what you need via Google Books' snippets ...