Imperial College London
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ProfessorMarkusPerkmann

Business School

Vice-Dean (Research and Faculty) for the Business School
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 1955m.perkmann Website CV

 
 
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Location

 

288Business School BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@inbook{Perkmann:2016,
author = {Perkmann, M},
booktitle = {Managing Knowledge Integration Across Boundaries},
editor = {Tell and Berggren and Brusoni and Van, de Ven},
publisher = {Oxford University Press},
title = {How Boundary Organizations Facilitate Collaboration Across Diverse Communities},
url = {http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2721119},
year = {2016}
}
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TY  - CHAP
AB  - Successful integration of dispersed knowledge often requires collaboration between members of different communities. This poses challenges due to the social boundaries that separate communities. In this chapter, I explore how specially designed boundary organizations can facilitate cooperation across social boundaries and, thereby, support knowledge integration. I present an inductive study of the Structural Genomics Consortium, a boundary organization operating at the interface between academia and industry. The findings suggest that the boundary organization enabled cooperation by intervening both structurally and cognitively. Structurally, it managed and maintained the social boundary between academia and industry, thereby reducing the potential for conflict and allowing for multilateral decision-making. Cognitively, it created a cosmopolitan interpretive scheme that appealed to participants from diverse settings and maintained their motivation. Compared to previous research on boundary organizations that has focused on their structural interventions, we stress that establishing a cognitive scheme broad enough to align with multiple communities is important for facilitating lasting cooperation across social boundaries.
AU  - Perkmann,M
PB  - Oxford University Press
PY  - 2016///
TI  - How Boundary Organizations Facilitate Collaboration Across Diverse Communities
T1  - Managing Knowledge Integration Across Boundaries
UR  - http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2721119
ER  -
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