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Managing across boundaries: identity, differentiation and interaction

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The impact of organisational restructuring on organisational boundaries has become increasingly important, especially because modernisation of work practices within large organisations generates increasing boundary complexity. Psychoanalytic theory offers a means of exploring boundaries and emphasises the importance of boundary in the emergence of an integrated sense of identity. In the UK, restructuring of health services has resulted in changes to organisational, professional and work group boundaries, seemingly, without attention being given to what may constitute a healthy set of boundary relationships. Four interrelated case studies illustrate a variety of organisational relationships and cross-boundary processes in mental health services, and how threats to particular boundaries can lead organisational members to engage in defensive activity. Whilst defences may be healthy for the individual or the organisation, they may generate more problems than they solve. Although the examples given here are highly specific, they may illuminate boundary systems more generally within organisations.

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  • Paula Hyde, 2006. "Managing across boundaries: identity, differentiation and interaction," International Journal of Innovation and Learning, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 3(4), pages 349-362.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijilea:v:3:y:2006:i:4:p:349-362
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    1. Nugus, Peter & Carroll, Katherine & Hewett, David G. & Short, Alison & Forero, Roberto & Braithwaite, Jeffrey, 2010. "Integrated care in the emergency department: A complex adaptive systems perspective," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 71(11), pages 1997-2004, December.
    2. Omid Omidvar & Roman Kislov, 2016. "R&D Consortia As Boundary Organisations: Misalignment And Asymmetry Of Boundary Management," International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 20(02), pages 1-24, February.

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