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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"boundary spanners"”.
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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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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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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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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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Managing Role Stress in Service Occupations: Addressing Gaps in Boundary Spanner Research
Even though the negative outcomes of boundary spanners’ role stress are well- known to service theory and practice, insights into how to manage frontline employees to lower experienced role stress are sparse. Moreover, extant research fails to include most up-to-date challenges of new service …
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Intergroup conflict in organisations:predictors and relationships with team working effectiveness
… role of both resource interdependence and group boundary spanners’ negotiation style for the relationship between intergroup competition and longitudinal change in group and intergroup effectiveness is examined.
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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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HOW DO RELATIONAL DYNAMICS INFLUENCE PUBLIC SECTOR PARTNERSHIPS? A STUDY OF THE OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATED COLLEGE PARTNERSHIP
… on the relevance of Relational Capital and Boundary Spanning to education partnerships. The findings of each embedded case are set out in 5 distinct chapters which provide an opportunity to examine the nuances which arose as a result of subject specific pedagogy or role before a sixth …
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Salesperson Perceptions - An Examination of Sales Manager Leadership and Salesperson Engagement
… and retention. Specifically, salespeople, as boundary spanners, pose unique challenges to organizations. To date, the literature has given limited attention to salesperson engagement. This study explores the assertion that managers are the primary source of employee disengagement by examining …
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Transformation and power in a multiorganizational partnership: a case study.
… and particularly partnership managers as boundary spanners. In the second-person the inquiry claims that more attention could usefully be focused on intra-partnership conflict as a means of improving partnership effectiveness. In the third-person voice the study concludes that remedial …
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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