Managing Boundaries in Organizations: Multiple Perspectives

Drawing together an international group of scholars, this book provides fresh and provocative perspectives on boundaries in organizations. The emergence, management and transformation of organizational boundaries is intrinsic to modern organization and poses one of the most persistent and potentially rewarding challenges to researchers and managers alike. The book offers the latest insights into the nature of boundaries, how they may be interpreted and studied, as well as implications for managing. The chapters include theoretical perspectives and cases from Europe, Canada, the USA, Australia, the Middle East and Africa.

FRANÇOIS BÉLAND Professor in the Department of Health Administration, University of Montreal FREDRIK VON CORSWANT Department of Operations Management, Chalmers University, Sweden DIANNE CYR Associate Professor, Simon Fraser University, Canada JEAN-LOUIS DENIS Professor of Health Adminstration, University of Montreal ANNA DUBOIS Associate Professor, Industrial Marketing, Chalmers University, Sweden PETER FREDRIKSSON Department of Operations Management, Chalmers University, Sweden CHRISTINA GARSTEN Associate Professor of Social Anthropology, SCORE, Sweden BIRGIT JEVNAKER Associate Professor, Norwegian School of Management, Sandvika FRANS KAMSTEEG Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Social Sciences, Vrije University, Amsterdam HANNELE KERUSUO Researcher at the Center of Activity Theory and Developmental Work Research, University of Helsinki, Finland ANN LANGLEY Professor of Strategy, HEC, Montreal NICK MARSHALL Research Fellow, Centre for Research in Innovation Management, University of Brighton YAEL MELNIK Organizational Consultant specializing in cross-cultural working relations CHRISTENA NIPPERT-ENG Associate Professor of Sociology, Illinois Institute of Technology NIKI PANTELI Lecturer in Information Systems at the University of Bath ANAT RAFAELI Professor and Chair of Social Sciences at Technion, Israel’s Institute of Technology CHARO RODRIGUEZ Postdoctoral Fellow in Management, McGill University BOAS SHAMIR Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem HAIZLEY TREVOR-SMITH Lecturer at Simon-Fraser University, Canada IRIS VILNAI-YAVETZ PhD candidate, Technion, Israel HARRY WELS Associate Professor, Vrije University, Amsterdam