Managing Boundaries in Organizations: Multiple Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Neil Paulsen, Tor Hernes (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2003
Tongue: English
Leaves: 327
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction: Boundaries and Organization....Pages 1-13
“Who Are We Now?”: Group Identity, Boundaries, and the (Re)Organizing Process....Pages 14-34
Enabling and Constraining Properties of Organizational Boundaries....Pages 35-54
Identity and Difference in Complex Projects: Why Boundaries Still Matter in the “Boundaryless” Organization....Pages 55-75
Virtual Interactions: Creating Impressions of Boundaries....Pages 76-92
Building E-Loyalty Across Cultures and Organizational Boundaries....Pages 93-109
Industrial Designers as Boundary Workers....Pages 110-128
Organizing Activities in Industrial Networks: The Case of Volvo S80....Pages 129-146
Managing Across Boundaries in Health Care: The Forces for Change and Inertia....Pages 147-168
Boundaries in Health Care Discussions: An Activity Theoretical Approach to the Analysis of Boundaries....Pages 169-187
Discerning Organizational Boundaries Through Physical Artifacts....Pages 188-210
Formidable Fences: Organizational Cooperation and Boundary Bullies in Zimbabwe....Pages 211-225
Merging Identities, Reinventing Boundaries: The Survival Strategy of Catholic Development Aid in the Netherlands....Pages 226-243
Colleague, Competitor, or Client: Social Boundaries in Flexible Work Arrangements....Pages 244-261
Drawing the Line: Organizations and the Boundary Work of “Home” and “Work”....Pages 262-280
Some Organizational Consequences of Cultural Differences in Boundary Permeability....Pages 281-301
Epilogue: A Reflection and Future Directions....Pages 302-308
Back Matter....Pages 309-311

✦ Subjects

Organization; Business Strategy/Leadership; Sociology of Work; Management

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