Balancing the Boundary: Sustaining Self-Managing Modes of Work Within Hierarchical Organizations
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in: Academy of Management Proceedings, Jahrgang 2022, Nr. 1, 14278, 01.08.2022.
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T1 - Balancing the Boundary
T2 - 82nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management - AOM 2022
AU - Stöber, Anna
AU - Schöneborn, Dennis
N1 - Conference code: 82
PY - 2022/8/1
Y1 - 2022/8/1
N2 - This paper addresses the question of how self-managing teams can sustain their alternative mode of organizing within a more hierarchical organizational setting. We look at this issue as a phenomenon of intra-organizational boundary work. By drawing on communicative under-standing of boundary work, we specifically examine the communicative practices used to negotiate intra-organizational boundaries. Based on a qualitative case study of a self-managing team within the more hierarchical environment of an international medical technology company, we show how the team uses communicative practices of nurturing, exposing and blending-in their self-managing mode of organizing to negotiate their internal boundaries. Through this communicative boundary negotiation and balancing, the team was able to maintain its mode of organizing in an otherwise largely traditionally organized firm.
AB - This paper addresses the question of how self-managing teams can sustain their alternative mode of organizing within a more hierarchical organizational setting. We look at this issue as a phenomenon of intra-organizational boundary work. By drawing on communicative under-standing of boundary work, we specifically examine the communicative practices used to negotiate intra-organizational boundaries. Based on a qualitative case study of a self-managing team within the more hierarchical environment of an international medical technology company, we show how the team uses communicative practices of nurturing, exposing and blending-in their self-managing mode of organizing to negotiate their internal boundaries. Through this communicative boundary negotiation and balancing, the team was able to maintain its mode of organizing in an otherwise largely traditionally organized firm.
KW - Management studies
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/ac138701-4c87-383e-95a7-023480592fc8/
U2 - 10.5465/AMBPP.2022.14278abstract
DO - 10.5465/AMBPP.2022.14278abstract
M3 - Conference abstract in journal
VL - 2022
JO - Academy of Management Proceedings
JF - Academy of Management Proceedings
SN - 0065-0668
IS - 1
M1 - 14278
Y2 - 5 August 2022 through 9 August 2022
ER -