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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Boundary Spanning"”.
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Informal boundary-spanning links and networks in successful technological innovation
… the important role played by the personal boundary-spanning relationships of engineers and scientists as a channel for the transference of such inputs. However, research concerning the role and nature of personal boundary-spanning links in the innovation process have either been primarily …
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U.S. AND INDIAN MANAGERIAL BOUNDARY SPANNING BEHAVIORS IN GLOBALLY DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE TEAMS
… paper explores the construct of Boundaries and Boundary Spanning in software development teams that consist of members located in both the U.S. and in India. Drawing on literature pertaining to boundaries in business, global boundaries, cultural boundaries, virtual team boundaries, and …
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Harnessing social capital : an exploratory investigation of stakeholder disposition in boundary spanning networks
… to suggest that such social aggregation produces boundary spanners who in turn act as attractors for continued group aggregation, leading action against organisations. This is an important re-conceptualisation because organisations will need to recognise and manage this growing phenomenon. The …
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Strategic service partnerships and boundary-spanning behaviour: a study of multiple, cascading policy windows
This study explores the role of boundary-spanning individuals in the development of Strategic Service Partnerships (SSPs). SSPs are the latest manifestation of Public- Private Partnerships (PPPs). However, these partnerships are remarkably underresearched. Furthermore, the role of key …
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A case study of interorganizational collaboration, boundary spanning, and professions in the Covid-19 pandemic
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-12-01
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MANAGING PUBLIC SECTOR JOB SATISFACTION: THE INFLUENCE OF TEAM BOUNDARY SPANNING, DOWNWARD COMMUNICATION AND DEMOGRAPHIC DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT PRACTICES
… I find that employee perception of team boundary spanning, organizational communication and demographic diversity has a sizable influence on job satisfaction. These interactions are moderated by perceptions of managerial trust. This analysis of 2014 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey …
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The critical architect: How can educational leaders use duoethnographic boundary-spanning dialogue to build pathways for transformative leadership?
… way of reform? In this dissertation, I examined boundary-spanning dialogue as a way to create a meaningfully inclusive leadership process. I used surveys, qualitative network analysis, photovoice submissions, and a series of dialogues based in the methodological tradition of duoethnography. The …
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Building a continuum of care through boundary spanning and organizational change : corrections and HIV/AIDS supported housing in Massachusetts
… roles in their own organizations that are 'boundary spanning.' Boundary spanning becomes a means of building ties across vast inter-organizational distances, inventing programmatic solutions to structural problems, and creating organizational change. In this thesis, I examine organizational …
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Strategic management of America's counter-terrorist response: the role of boundary spanning, networking, and collateral organizations in emergency management
This work investigates the organizational differences among organizations which have experienced and responded to acts of international terrorism and those which have not. The author investigates several organizational characteristics, using both qualitative and quantitative data collection …
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The Dialectics of Boundary Spanning: An Examination of the Dialectic Tensions Experienced by the Boundary Spanners of a Complex Organization Composed of Interrelated Groups
… examines the dialectic tensions experienced by boundary spanners in a complex volunteer organization composed of interrelated groups. Observation of group meetings during the annual budgetary planning process of a Midwestern chamber of commerce and interviews with key members of that chamber …
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Emotional Exhaustion and Its Role in Service Sabotage among Boundary Spanners
… how emotional exhaustion (EE) impacts a boundary spanning employee's usage of service sabotage behaviors (SSB). This dissertation also investigates how perceived organizational support (POS) and perceived supervisory support (PSS) alleviate a boundary spanning employee's EE and SSB. …
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Together We Stand? Spanish and Italian LGBTQIA* organisations crossing boundaries through social media
… examines emergent forms of digitally enabled boundary-spanning by considering the within- and cross-field interactions developed by LGBTQIA* organisations on social media. Within scholarship on collective actors characterised by strong collective identities, LGBTQIA* collective action fields …
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The Impact and Role of Boundary Spanners and Boundary Objects in Global Project Networks
… individually and organizationally, can lead to boundary formation. Though past research has explored the boundary spanning capabilities within organizations, little is known about the roles and impacts of boundary spanning, both as individuals and as objects, in global project networks. I …
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When Leaders Use Self-Uncertainty Strategically: Consequences for Intergroup Leadership and Identity Confirmation Dynamics
… found that leaders can use their rhetoric and boundary spanning behavior to meet their members’ identity needs and garner support. In addition, the self-uncertainty literature has suggested that leaders can strategically elevate and resolve members’ self-uncertainty through their rhetoric. The …
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Directing rural cooperatives in uncertain environments
… with uncertainty. Boards were viewed as informal boundary spanning units. The decision making and resource dependence perspectives were the source of most hypotheses. A third perspective, population ecology, was introduced as a means of interpreting cooperative literature and improving future …
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The relationships among student characteristics, use of team learning principles in a workshop setting, and the likelihood of intent to apply team learning principles as a future manager among undergraduate students in Taiwan
… team learning principles from the literature—boundary spanning, reflection, and experimentation—as the basis for designing an instructional strategy for a workshop to be delivered to undergraduate business students. Further, the study sought to identify the likelihood that the students would …
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Joining the dots: a framework for assessing integration in flood risk management with applications to England and Serbia
… FRM through multiple mechanisms. Five types of boundary spanning roles were identified (reticulist, entrepreneur, interpreter, organiser and specialist) that facilitate actors’ ability to work within existing mechanisms (e.g. rules, funding mechanisms and partnerships) to jointly develop …
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"We band of brothers"? A social-identity-based study of military public affairs professional identity, organizational socialization, and collaboration
… that public relations practice is a boundary spanning function, with internal boundary spanning an important aspect of the public affairs manager’s work (Neill, 2014). Findings helped to extend understanding of organizational socialization by suggesting that the public affairs …
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The salesperson-manager exchange relationship: the impact of competence, latitude and loyalty
… may be questionable given the unique boundary-spanning context in which the field sales force must operate. This study raises the questions and offers an approach which may be more appropriate. Specifically, this study questions the assumption that the manager acts and the salesperson …
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