scholarly journals Belonging and its frames: Rural employers' boundary construction concerning immigrant employees

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marja Enbuska ◽  
Merja Lähdesmäki ◽  
Timo Suutari
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Construction

scholarly journals From knowledge to knowing, from boundaries to boundary construction

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 881-899 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claude Paraponaris ◽  
Martine Sigal
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Boundary Construction ◽  
Issue Knowledge

Purpose – Knowledge management is shot through with complex questions. This is certainly the case with regard to boundaries, as they constitute both a bounding line that has to be crossed if the knowledge required for innovation is to be diffused and a form of protection for scientific and technological organisations and institutions. This examination of boundaries leads to a state-of-the-art review that begins with the question of knowledge transfer. The authors start with foundations of the knowledge dynamic within organisations. Nevertheless, certain gaps were identified in the theory, as it did not seem so easy to carry out transfers. This led in turn to attempts to identify the boundaries that were causing difficulties and that had to be crossed. This led to an examination of the role of boundaries. What status could boundaries have when knowledge was expanding enormously within communities? Finally, the authors come face-to-face with knowledge management systems that have tended to redefine the forms that boundaries take. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses a conceptual approach and is a meta analysis of the state-of-the-art review conducted to introduce the Special Issue “Knowledge Across Boundaries” JKM Volume 19, No. 5, 2015 (October). Findings – The notions of transfer and boundary demonstrated their usefulness in the development of a new theory, namely the knowledge-based view. These concepts were then critiqued, with reference, first, to the contexts in which communication takes place and, second, to the cognitive dimensions of the activity. Finally, studies showed that the cognitive and organisational approaches can be linked and that they shed light on many knowledge-sharing situations. Boundaries are no longer the object of attention, the focus having switched to the collective process of creating new concepts. Research limitations/implications – This state-of-the-art review is limited to the papers about Management Science. Practical implications – Knowledge hybridization is possible but must be referred to resources made available by the division of labour between disciplines (Shinn, 1997). Expansive learning (Engeström, 2010) is close to boundary construction (Holford, 2015) to indicate the dialectical view between instituting and instituted society (Castoriadis, 1975, 1987). We are now perhaps at the point of transition between the interest in “boundary spanners” and a new concern with “boundary construction”. Social implications – This paper introduces a methodology of knowledge transfer knowledge transfer in firms strategies of learning. Originality/value – The paper provides the concept (with examples) of ‘boundary construction’.

scholarly journals The Dynamics of (De)Stigmatization: Boundary construction in the nascent category of organic farming

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (7) ◽  
pp. 993-1018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marjo Siltaoja ◽  
Merja Lähdesmaki ◽  
Nina Granqvist ◽  
Sami Kurki ◽  
Petteri Puska ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Organic Farming ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
Power Struggle ◽  
The Core ◽  
Farming Community ◽  
External Power ◽  
Boundary Construction ◽  
Over Time

This study finds that it is possible for organizations in emerging categories to resist stigmatization through discursive reconstruction of the central and distinctive characteristics of the category in question. We examined the emerging market of organic farming in Finland and discovered how resistance to stigmatization was both an internal and an external power struggle in the organic farming community. Over time, the label of organic farming was manipulated and the practice of farming was associated with more conventional and familiar contexts, while the stigma was diverted at the same time to biodynamic farming. We develop a process model for removal of stigma from a nascent category through stigma diversion. We find that stigma diversion forces the core community to (re)define themselves in relation to the excluded community and the mainstream. We also discuss how notoriety can be an individuating phenomenon that helps categorical members conduct identity work and contributes to stigma removal.

The construction of collective identity

1995 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt ◽  
Bernhard Giesen
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Cultural Codes ◽  
Cultural Project ◽  
Japanese Identity ◽  
Boundary Construction

A general typological model for the analysis of collective identify is outlined and applied to the case of German and Japanese national identity. Primordial, civic and cultural codes of boundary construction are described with respect to their logic of exclusion, corresponding rituals etc. German national identity is presented as a cultural project carried by the ‘Bildungsbürgertum’, whereas the Japanese identity is presented as a combination of primordial and civic elements.

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