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| Authors |
Ann Langley Kajsa Lindberg Bjørn Erik Mørk Davide Nicolini Elena Raviola Lars Walter |
|---|---|
| Published in | Academy of Management Annals |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 704-736 |
| ISSN | 1941-6520 |
| Publication year | 2019 |
| Published at |
Department of Business Administration School of Design and Crafts |
| Pages | 704-736 |
| Language | en |
| Links |
https://doi.org/10.5465/annals.2017... |
| Subject categories | Business Administration |
© Academy of Management Annals. 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 interrelated forms of boundary work emerging from the literature. Competitive boundary work involves mobilizing boundaries to establish some kind of advantage over others. In 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, whereas 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.
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