Special Issue: Frontiers of Organization Science, Part 2 of 2: Organizational Boundaries and Theories of Organization

By Filipe M. Santos, Kathleen M. Eisenhardt. Organ. Sci., 2005

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Subfields: Accounting, Safety Research, Strategy and Management

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Digital servitization business models in ecosystems: A theory of the firm (2019, methodology): “Typically, strategy theory provides four theories to conceptualize the theory of the ﬁ rm: industrial organization, the resource-based view, organizational identity, and the transaction cost approach (Santos & Eisenhardt, 2005).”
Knowledge Collaboration in Online Communities (2011, background): “…has traditionally associated boundaries with efficiency, incentives , and property and decision rights, but the recent interest in nascent markets, social movements, and new organizational forms has expanded this view to conceptions of identity, expertise, and power (Santos and Eisenhardt 2005).”
Unpacking the innovation ecosystem construct: Evolution, gaps and trends (2016, background): “009 Sunley et al. (2008) discussed the role of business ecosystems and firm architecture in driving innovation in a creative production system.”
Organizational Perspectives of Industrial Symbiosis (2015, background): “Santos and Eisenhardt (2005) identify four ways in which firms conceive boundaries that, by extension, may be applied to IS systems: (1) efficiency boundaries based on minimizing transaction costs, (2) power boundaries that maximize strategic control over resources and dependencies, (3) competence b”
Sustaining Inter-organizational Relationships Across Institutional Logics and Power Asymmetries: The Case of Fair Trade (2016, background): “As Tracey et al. (2011) pointed out, common, shared, institutional logics also help set the boundaries of fields and create the identities of field members (see also Santos and Eisenhardt 2005).”
Clearing a Path Through the Forest: A Meta-Review of Interorganizational Relationships (2011, background): “In doing so, we extend work by Santos and Eisenhardt (2005), who demonstrated the importance of combining economic and sociological perspectives to explore firm boundaries, and we respond to the call for more diverse theoretical approaches to IORs (e.g., Combs et al., 2004).”
Digital Supply Chain Transformation toward Blockchain Integration (2017, background): “According to Santos and Eisenhardt [9], the key motivation for supply chain integration is the efficiency associated with minimizing governance costs, including the costs of exchange with other ecosystem participants and with those within the individual organization.”