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Boundary work among groups, occupations and organizations : from cartography to process
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Langley, Ann, Lindberg, Kajsa, Mørk, Bjørn Erik, Nicolini, Davide, Raviola, Elena and Walter, Lars (2019) Boundary work among groups, occupations and organizations : from cartography to process. Academy of Management Annals, 13 (2). pp. 704-736. doi:10.5465/annals.2017.0089
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.5465/annals.2017.0089
Abstract
This article reviews scholarship dealing with the notion of “boundary work,” defined as purposeful individual and collective effort to influence the social, symbolic, material or temporal boundaries, demarcations and distinctions affecting groups, occupations and organizations. We identify and explore the implications of three conceptually distinct but inter-related forms of boundary work emerging from the literature. Competitive boundary work involves mobilizing boundaries to establish some kind of advantage over others. In direct contrast, collaborative boundary work is concerned with aligning boundaries to enable collaboration. Finally, configurational boundary work involves manipulating patterns of differentiation and integration among groups to ensure that certain activities are brought together while others are kept apart, orienting the domains of competition and collaboration. We argue that the notion of boundary work can contribute to the development of a uniquely processual view of organizational design as open-ended, and continually becoming, an orientation with significant future potential for understanding novel forms of organizing, and for integrating agency, power dynamics, materiality, and temporality into the study of organizing.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||||||
| SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Management, Organization | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Academy of Management Annals | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Academy of Management | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1941-6067 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 15 July 2019 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 13 | ||||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 704-736 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.5465/annals.2017.0089 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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