This meta-analytic review of power-sensitive boundary spanning research provides strong evidence that power enables, broadens and limits practices outcomes. Boundary spanners use bases to drive innovation empower others maintain cross-cultural collaboration, while altering unequal relations hinder learning knowledge-sharing in organizations. The further points avenues for future on processes: s...

This article examines the frequently cited argument that coordination issues in humanitarian relief can be addressed more effectively with greater centralized authority and argues for a new conceptualization of aid delivery. The former position suggests a hierarchical, top-down view of the humanitarian relief theater, while this analysis contends that the relief implementation structure may be ...

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...

We reprove a result of Dehkordi, Frati, and Gudmundsson: every two vertices in a non-obtuse triangulation of a point set are connected by an angle-monotone path— an xy-monotone path in an appropriately rotated coordinate system. We show that this result cannot be extended to angle-monotone spanning trees, but can be extended to boundary-rooted spanning forests. The latter leads to a conjectural...

The number of spanning clusters in four to nine dimensions does not fully follow the expected size dependence for random percolation. Researchers were interested already long ago in percolation theory above the upper critical dimension of six [1, 2], and we followed [3]. At the perco-lation threshold [4], there is a theoretical consensus that the number N of spanning clusters stays finite with ...

ion (Vitalari and Dickson, 1983). These concepts from the psychology literature converge, and are extended to social interaction, in the notion of a "frame" (Goffman, 1974; Tannen, 1993). The framing concept operates at the intersection of a psychological-cognitive and a social-behavioral approach to human interaction (Ensink and Sauer, 2003). People behave according to "structures of expectati...

Received: 18 June 2005 Revised: 22 December 2005 Accepted: 3 January 2006 Abstract This paper presents the design of a business-aligned information system (IS) from an actor-network perspective, viewing non-human intermediaries jointly as inscriptions and boundary objects. This field study presents a situated view of IS design over time. The design process is assessed through analyzing the inte...

In studies of popular politics a split exists. Some scholars focus on rather tame forms of participation while others become interested mainly when political action spills out onto the streets. This article considers acts located near the boundary between official, prescribed politics and politics by other means. It explores popular pressure that is arguably legal, permissible in some eyes but ...

a r t i c l e i n f o An information systems (IS) support community represents a knowledge-intensive network where IS professionals interact with end-users to resolve system use problems during the IS post-implementation stage. For IS professionals in the support function, providing support for multiple information systems to multiple business units requires knowledge about different domains (b...

In today’s business environments organizations deal with complex problems that require holistic solutions originating from both business and technical domains. Such initiatives require business professionals that have a deeper understanding of the holistic nature of the problems, and can offer integrated solutions that leverage practices from various domains. In order to equip professionals wit...