A Pragmatic View of Knowledge and Boundaries: Boundary Objects in New Product Development

By Paul R. Carlile. Organ. Sci., 2002

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Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management

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Organizing Thoughts and Connecting Brains: Material Practices and the Transition from Individual to Group-Level Prospective Sensemaking (2012, background): “tating the transfer of understandings across different communities (Bechky, 2003; Garlile, 2002).”
Leadership in the Plural (2012, background): “Scholars of plural leadership might learn from Carlile's ( 2002 , 2004 ) cross-boundary work on innovation or from Kellogg, Orlikowski, and Yates’ ( 2006 ) analyses of how different groups of professionals coordinate activity.”
Knowledge Collaboration in Online Communities (2011, background): “…associated with knowledge collaboration in organizational teams: stable membership, convergence after divergence, repeated people-to-people interactions, goalsharing , and feelings of interdependence among group members (Boland et al. 1994, Carlile 2002, Dougherty 1992, Schrage 1995, Tsoukas 2009).”
Seeing More and Seeing Differently: Sensemaking, Mindfulness, and the Workarts (2010, background): “Analogous artifacts similarly resemble ‘boundary objects’ (Carlile 2002) in that they cross multiple domains of knowing.”
Reconfiguring Boundary Relations: Robotic Innovations in Pharmacy Work (2012, background): “More generally, technologies have been studied as boundary objects in knowledge sharing across professional and organizational boundaries (Bechky 2003, Carlile 2002, Gal et al. 2008, Levina and Vaast 2005).”
Transitional Identity as a Facilitator of Organizational Identity Change during a Merger (2010, background): “…change (Bartunek and Moch, 1987) that spans organizations, an engaging but unrefi ned identity might serve as a form of “boundary object” (cf. Carlile, 2002; Bechky, 2003)—or, more aptly, a “boundary concept”— to bridge identity differences between the merging organizations better than…”
The Why and How of the Integrative Review (2020, background): “An integrative review expands and diversifies knowledge on a topic by integrating knowledge from across the communities of practice that study it (Brown & Duguid, 1991; Carlile, 2002; Wenger, 1999).”
The Effect of Team Leader Characteristics on Learning, Knowledge Application, and Performance of Cross-Functional New Product Development Teams (2003, background): “This is especially true in cross-functional activities such as new product development where knowledge is often codified and structured differently in the various functional areas of the firm (Carlile, 2002; Madhavan & Grover, 1998).”
The Role of Narratives in Sustaining Organizational Innovation (2009, methodology): “This concept has been applied in various contexts, including design teams (Henderson 1991), new product development (Carlile 2002), production and manufacturing systems (Bechky 2003, Garrety and Badham 2000, Karsten et al. 2001), and information systems (Dodgson et al. 2007, Yakura 2002).”
Digital product innovation within four classes of innovation networks (2016, background): “…come together through unlikely connections borne out of serendipity, accidents or bold initiatives, those who occupy a ‘ structural hole ’ (Burt, 1992) or operate as a ‘ weak link ’ (Granovetter, 1973) are likely to face boundaries rife with tension (Boland & Tenkasi, 1995; Carlile, 2002).”
Strategy tools as boundary objects (2009, methodology): “While the tool may enable shared meanings among one group of actors, top managers, it may also create barriers when communicating results to middle managers who have not been involved in selecting or using this tool (see Bechky, 2003a, 2003b; Carlile, 2002).”
Entrepreneurship in global innovation ecosystems (2011, background): “Researchers have catalogued a host of problems entrepreneurs encounter as they assemble and integrate different types of knowledge and then seek to communicate it to potentially interested parties that do not fully comprehend the resultant new knowledge (Boland et al. 2007; Carlile 2002, 2004 ).”
Technology, innovation and knowledge: The importance of ideas and international connectivity (2016, methodology): “Second, the importance of connectivity and the relevance of individual actors suggest that the boundary spanning literature offers a fruitful avenue along which IB research can develop new insights (Carlile, 2002).”
The Barriers and Enablers of Co-design for Services (2016, background): “The representations by designers (personas, scenarios, concepts, process maps, etc.) can become effective boundary objects (Carlile, 2002).”