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Toward Permeable Boundaries of Organizations? /
The classical concept of organizations as solitary 'walled-in' actors with clear operational boundaries is increasingly being challenged. This volume examines why, examines the impact of these changes on organizations and offers conceptual and empirical insights.
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Other Authors: | , , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Bingley :
Emerald Publishing Limited,
2018.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Research in the sociology of organizations ;
vol. 57. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Front Cover; Toward Permeable Boundaries of Organizations?; Copyright Page; Contents; About the Authors; Introduction; Toward Permeable Boundaries of Organizations?; Organizations as Closed and Open Systems; Toward Permeable Boundaries of Organizations? Recent Developments in Systems Theory and New Institutionalism; Systems Theory; New Institutionalism; Empirical Trends; Advances in Information and Communication Technologies; Increasingly Dynamic Field and Markets; Invasive Transparency Regimes; Meta-organizations; Contributions to the Volume; Conceptualizing Organizational Boundaries.
- Boundaries and Intraorganizational ProcessesExtending Boundaries: Meta-organization and Organizational Networks; Boundaries and Organizational Fields; Conclusion; References; Section 1 Conceptualizing Organizational Boundaries; Accounting, Boundary-making, and Organizational Permeability; Introduction; The Accounting Entity Assumption: Proprietorial or Social?; Boundaries of Control: What Is a Group?; Critical Accounting: "Bringing Society Back in"; Keeping Society Out: Accounting and Economization; The Responsive Organization: Accounting, Actorhood, and Stakeholders.
- Discussion and ConclusionsAcknowledgments; References; Boundaries of Visibility in the Age of Transparency: An Integrative Conceptualization; Introduction; Transparency Research: Verifiability and Performativity; Frontstage/Backstage: A Theatrical Metaphor; Organizations and Operative Closure; Organizational "Imperfections"; Organizational Responses to Demands for Transparency; Examples; Discussion; Conclusion; Notes; References; Collaboration as an Organization Design for Shared Purpose; Shared Purpose and Its Impediments; Foundations of Shared Purpose.
- Four Challenges in Scaling-up Value-rationalityValues: Fragmentation; Norms: Goal Displacement; Authority: Centralization; Capabilities: Specialization; From Collegiality to Collaboration; Values: Institutionalizing an Ethic of Contribution; Norms: Interactive Process Management; Authority: Participative Centralization; Capabilities: T-shaped Skills; Discussion and Conclusion; Moderators and Boundary Conditions; Future Research; Notes; References; Platform Organizing in the New Digital Economy: Revisiting Online Communities and Strategic Responses; Introduction.
- Platform Organizations in the Sharing EconomySharing Economy: A Prime Example of the New Digital Economy; Platform Organizations: Powering the Sharing Economy; Hybrid Communities in the Sharing Economy; Hybrid Communities: Mirroring the Boundary-blurring Nature of the Sharing Economy; The Form of Hybrid Communities; Strategic Implications from a Resource Dependence View; Resource Dependence Theory and Its Contemporary Relevance; Dependence of a Platform Organization on Its Hybrid Community; Strategic Responses to Dependency on a Hybrid Community; Discussion; Acknowledgments; References.