Change, agency, and boundary spanning in dynamic contexts

Boundary spanning in the context of academic education

Despite the emergence of the concept of boundary spanning in the fields of behavioral psychology and organization theories, this concept is still somewhat unknown in the health and medical education system. Meanwhile, one of the approaches and activities that can help to improve the health and medical education system is boundary spanning activities. Thus, boundary spanning is considered as a v...

Boundary Spanning Practices in BPM: A Dynamic Capability Perspective

Collaborating with actors from outside of an organization, such as consultancies, customers, or suppliers, has proven to be a success factor for business process change. Research on business process change maturity views effective collaboration as a sign for mature organizations. It argues that establishing systematic cross-boundary collaboration and making use of business process change networ...

ATL with contexts: agency and explicit strategies

This paper reports on first results of our study of the recently proposed family of ATLsc logics. We provide the intuitions for that it could serve as an (already well-studied) unifying framework for the verification of properties about time, ability, strategies and agency in societies of agents. We relate it with STIT logics of actual agency, and with ATL with explicit strategies. We establish...

Boundary-Spanning in NIOC’s research projects: Literature meta-synthesis and the direction of future research

The complex and ambiguous nature of innovative activities has forced organizations to think beyond their conventional boundaries. In this regard, inter-organizational projects are carried out with the aim of developing complex technological systems, changing organizational routines and developing capabilities. Designing and implementing inter-organizational projects creates many inter-organizat...

Beyond a Boundary: Towards a Dynamic Theory of Boundary Spanning in Global Virtual Teams